V.—That they should appear every morning by nine, on the parade, to receive necessary orders.
VI.—That none should presume to follow the scent but such as he ordered on that party.
VII.—That if any one gave them shoes or stockings, they should convert them into money to play.
VIII.—That they should steal nothing they could not come at, for fear of bringing a scandal upon the company.
IX.—That they should cant better than the Newgate birds, pick pockets without bungling, outlie a Quaker, outswear a lord at a gaming-table, and brazen out all their villainies beyond an Irishman.
[37] Cell.
[38] Newgate.
[39] A woman whose husband has been hanged.
[40] A dancing-master.
[41] "Nothing, comrades; on, on," supposed to be addressed by a thief to his confederates.