IX. Ne reste pas longtemps dans l’eau, à moins que tu ne sois d’un tempérament très fort.
X. Après le bain frictionne-toi, habille-toi promptement, et marche.
The X Commandments of the Canting Crew.
Perhaps the most whimsical laws that were ever prescribed to a gang of thieves were those framed by William Holliday, one of the prigging community, who was hanged in 1695:—
I. That none of his company should presume to wear shirts, upon pain of being cashiered.
II. That none should lie in any other places than stables, empty houses, or other bulks.
III. That they should eat nothing but what they begged, and that they should give away all the money they got by cleaning boots among one another, for the good of the fraternity.
IV. That they should neither learn to read nor write, that he may have them the better under command.
V. That they should appear every morning by nine on the parade, to receive necessary orders.