"Well, that depends on the party. If he has got good 'togs' on, looks pretty decent, and can work it well, he may make a good living at it."
"How much do you suppose?"
"If he can manage to begin every morning with yellow stuff, he may make a couple of 'quid' a day; but if he can only muster white stuff, why of course he can't make so much."
"Two pounds a day would do if it could be got regularly, but I suspect there are not many who make that?"
"Oh! I have known them make much more than that, but of course it varies, some days nothing may be done, but the great thing is to have something to start with."
"Do you never think of trying to make money at work?"
"Work! no, by jingo! I'll never work; that's all they can make one do in prison, and it will be time enough to work when we get there."
"I have heard you speak of 'hoisting,' how do you go about that?"
"Ah! that's a much better game, but it requires a fellow to be rigged out like a 'toff,'[10] ] and they generally have a 'flash moll,'[11] ] with them at that job. She can secrete articles about her dress when in a shop looking at things, and that's one way of 'hoisting.' Jewellers' shops are the best places for that game. I know a bloke who made several hundreds at it; he took fine lodgings, and his moll looked quite the lady, so he orders some jewellery to be sent on sight; he prigs the best of it and bolts. Then you can get snyde jewellery made to look the same as real stuff, and when you are in the shop with your moll, she is trying on a ring perhaps, when you put the snyde one in its place and she sticks to the right one."
"I am afraid that game would be above my abilities?"