"How many robberies may you have committed?"
"Goodness knows! with the exception of the time I was in New Zealand I've been always on the 'cross.'"
"What was the largest you ever got?"
"Five hundred pounds."
"I understand, most of these large robberies are 'put up' jobs, like the one you have mentioned?"
"Yes, most of them are; the risk would be too great if that was not the case."
"Have you ever been flogged?"
"Yes, severely."
"How did you like it?"
"Like it! why not at all, of course; who would like a flogging?"