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over's advice, and not trusted to his weasel-like attri- 

 butes, or fancied himself to have got au fond de son 

 metier as a salesman. 



I have merely attempted to give a rough sketch of 

 one of the scenes in a fair: it would render these 

 hints too lengthened were I even to give the heads of 

 the various changes to be rung by rascality, all tending 

 to the same result, where the actors are of the same 

 class ; and I can assure my friends, at least those who 

 have but ordinary experience in such matters, that 

 on all and every occasion where the deal with such 

 scamps as I allude to takes place, they will be robbed 

 to a certainty. Let them not fancy they can escape, 

 for escape is all but impossible. The most knowing 

 are not always a match for deliberate, and, above all, 

 confederate villany. 



The once celebrated George Barrington was on 

 some occasion brought in contact with a magistrate 

 in the latter's private room. On Barrington pulling 

 out his handkerchief, he with it pulled out of his 

 pocket a queer-looking little instrument with a hook 

 or hooks at the end of it. The magistrate inquired 

 its use. On being plainly told it had been made for 

 the purpose of picking pockets, the magistrate jokingly 

 asked Barrington if he thought he could by this means 

 extract any thing from his pocket without his feeling 

 it. He replied, he did not think he could ; and the 

 magistrate as confidently felt he could not. Shortly 

 after, Barrington went to the window and began 

 abusing some passer-by on some pretended charge of 

 ill-usage of himself: he (the stranger) of course ex- 

 postulated : this led to high words : the magistrate 

 came to the window to see what was the matter, and, 



