84 CRIMPS. 



could be duped, as well as to show how 

 these poor fellows were rewarded when re- 

 turning to the country which their un- 

 daunted bravery and unwearied toil had 

 preserved. 



The means practised by crimps and 

 touts were in a far more wholesale way; 

 for they would not only take the money 

 of the sailors, but take care that many of 

 them should never see the coach, which 

 leaving with half the complement they had 

 booked, would find a lot more waiting, 

 in charge of these worthies, at a house 

 two or three miles on the road, and they, 

 rather than not go, would clamber up, 

 after having been induced to reward their 

 kind offices, in thus procuring them a pas- 

 sage, with more than double fare. 



With these improvements, then, in the 

 style of both man and cattle, constantly 

 passing before my eyes on the one hand, 

 and the threats of poverty assailing me on 



