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intended much more to entertain than com- 

 municate infrruftion. However, that the bufl- 

 nefs may be elucidated in fuch way, as will 

 prove moft applicable to the nature of the 

 cafe and the patience of the reader, it will 

 be neceffary to afford their pracftices fuch ex- 

 planation, as may render the facility of exe- 

 cution more familiar to the imagination of 

 thpfe, whofe fituations in life, or contradled 

 opportunities, may have prevented their being 

 at all informed upon the fubjeft in agitation. 



That thefe ads of villainy may be the 

 better underftood, it becomes applicable to 

 obferve, that it is the perfevering pradice of 

 THE FAMILY, to have four, five, or fix 

 known good runners in their poffeffion ; 

 though for the convenience and greater cer- 

 tainty of public depredation, they pafs as the 

 diftind: property of different members: but 

 this is by no means the cafe, for they are 

 as much the joint ftock of the party ^ as is 

 the ftock in trade of the firft firm in the city. 

 The fpeed and bottom of thefe horfes are 

 as accurately known to each individual of 

 the brotherhood, and they are in general 

 (without an unexpected accident which fome- 



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