Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2)Cooper, Thomas
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Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2)
Cooper, Thomas
English fiction -- 19th century; Short stories, English
It could serve no virtuous purpose to detail his thieveries; and as for
the character of the company he kept, the sketch foregoing may suffice
to show what it was. He was, at length, sent over-sea for life, in
company with the leader and two others of the gang; while Jinks escaped,
only to decoy more lads into vice, and train them for the hulks or the
gallows; but Mr. Jonas Straitlace, through the grinding of his customers,
lost them,—so that he took no more apprentices to train up, in his own
peculiar way, for Jinks's second training and perfecting process.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
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