[94] The European reader will observe that it is her purity which carries the heroine through all these perils. Moreover, that her virtue is its own reward, as it loses to her the world.
[95] Literally, ‘one of all tastes’—a wild or gay man, we should say.
[96] These shoes are generally made of rags and bits of leather; they have often toes behind the foot, with other similar contrivances, yet they scarcely ever deceive an experienced man.
[97] The high-toper is a swell thief, the other is a low dog.
[98] Engaged in shoplifting.
[99] The moon.
[100] The judge.
[101] To be lagged is to be taken; scragging is hanging.
[102] The tongue.
[103] This is the god Kartikeya, a mixture of Mars and Mercury, who revealed to a certain Yugacharya the scriptures known as ‘Chauriya-Vidya’—Anglice, ‘Thieves’ Manual.’ The classical robbers of the Hindu drama always perform according to its precepts. There is another work respected by thieves, and called the ‘Chora-Pancha-shika,’ because consisting of fifty lines.