[6: drink and food]
[7: porter, beer]
[8: family = fraternity of thieves]
[9: nose]
[10: gentleman; drunk]
[11: pockets; fingers]
[12: take his sovereigns]
[13: watch]
[14: seals]
[15: hat]
[16: clothes]
[17: plunder]
[18: taken; police]
[19: hanging]
[20: girl's; eyes]
[21: Notes]




ON THE PRIGGING LAY [Notes]
[1829]

[By H. T. R....: a translation of a French
Slang song ("Un jour a la Croix Rouge")
in Vidocq's _Memoirs_, 1828-9, 4 vols.]


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