_when a thief who has just stolen the contents of a till is making his escape, an accomplice who is keeping watch outside scampers off in the opposite direction, so as to baffle the puzzled tradesman, whose hesitation allows of the rogues gaining ground_. Le ----, or vol à l’opium, _robbery from a person who has been drugged. The scoundrels who practise it are generally Jewish money-lenders of the lowest class, who attract their victims to their abode under pretence of advancing money_. A robber who first makes his victim insensible by drugs is termed in the English cant a “drummer.” Le ---- au boulon, _stealing from a shop by means of a rod or wire passed through a hole in the shutter_, “hooking.” Le ----, or vol au cerf-volant, _is practised by women, who strip little girls of their trinkets or ease them of their money or parcels. The little victims sometimes get their hair shorn off as well_. Le ----, or vol au chatouillage, _a couple of rogues pretend to recognize a friend in a man easing himself. They begin to tickle him in the ribs as if in play, meanwhile rifling the pockets of the helpless victim_. Le ----, or vol au colis, _the thief leaves a parcel in some coffee-house with the recommendation to the landlord not to give it up except on payment of say twenty francs. He then seeks a commissionnaire simple-minded enough to be willing to fetch the parcel and to pay the necessary sum, after which the swindler returns to the place and pockets the money left by the pigeon_. Le ----, or vol au fric-frac, _housebreaking_, or “crib-cracking.” Le ----, or vol au gail or gayet, _horse-stealing_, or “prad-napping.” Le ----, or vol au grimpant, _a young thief_, or “little snakesman,” _climbs on to the roof of a house and throws a rope-ladder to his accomplices below, who thus effect an entrance. When detected they pass themselves off for workmen engaged in some repairs_. Le ----, or vol au parapluie, _a shoplifter_, or “sneaksman,” _drops the stolen property in a half-open umbrella_. Le ----, or vol au poivrier, _consists in robbing drunkards who have come to grief. Rogues who practise it are in most cases apprehended, detectives being in the habit of impersonating drunkards asleep on benches late at night_. Le ---- au prix courant, or en pleine trèpe, _picking pockets or scarf-pins in a crowd_, “cross-fanning.” Le ----, or vol au radin, _the landlord of a wine-shop is requested to fetch a bottle of his best wine; while he is busy in the cellar the trap which gives access to it is closed by the rogues, and the counter, or_ “radin,” _pushed on to it, thus imprisoning the victim, who clamours in vain while his till is being emptied. It also takes place in this way: the rogues pretend to quarrel, and one of them throws the other’s cap into a shop, thus providing him with an excuse for entering the place and robbing the till_, or “pinching the bob or lob.” Le ----, or vol au raton, _a little boy, a_ “raton,” _or_ “anguille”