One who entices another to play at a game at which cheating rules, such as card or skittle sharping—_a buttoner_. The treadmill, _shin scraper_ (arising, it may be assumed, on account of the operator’s liability, if he is not careful, to get his shins scraped by the ever-revolving wheel). To commit burglary—_crack a case_, or _break a drum_. The van that conveys prisoners to gaol—_Black Maria_. A thief who robs cabs or carriages by climbing up behind, and cutting the straps that secure the luggage on the roof—_a dragsman_. Breaking a square of glass—_starring the glaze_. Training young thieves—_kidsman_. To be transported or sent to penal servitude—_lagged_. Three years’ imprisonment—_a stretch_. Half stretch—_six months_. Three months’ imprisonment—_a tail piece_. To rob a till—_pinch a bob_. A confederate in the practice of thimble rigging—_a nobbler_. One who assists at a sham street row for the purpose of creating a mob, and promoting robbery from the person—_a jolly_. A thief who secretes goods in a shop while a confederate distracts the attention of the shopkeeper is—_a palmer_. A person marked for plunder—_a plant_. Going out to steal linen in process of drying in gardens—_going snowing_. Bad money—_sinker_. Passer of counterfeit coins—_smasher_. Stolen property generally—_swag_. To go about half-naked to excite compassion—_on the shallow_. Stealing lead from the roof of houses—_flying the blue pigeon_. Coiners of bad money—_bit fakers_. Midnight prowlers who rob drunken men—_bug hunters_. Entering a dwelling house while the family have gone to church—_a dead lurk_. Convicted of thieving—_in for a ramp_. A city missionary or scripture reader—_gospel grinder_. Shop-lifting—_hoisting_. Hidden from the police—_in lavender_. Forged bank notes—_queer screens_. Whipping while in prison—_scroby_ or _claws for breakfast_. Long-fingered thieves expert in emptying ladies’ pockets—_fine wirers_. The condemned cell—_the salt box_. The prison chaplain—_Lady Green_. A boy thief, lithe and thin and daring, such a one as housebreakers hire for the purpose of entering a small window at the rear of a dwelling house—_a little snakesman_. So pertinaciously do the inhabitants of criminal colonies stick to their “latin,” that a well-known writer suggests that special religious tracts, suiting their condition, should be printed in the language, as an almost certain method of securing their attention.