There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. A deadlock. "
"Who's lost?" demanded Ireton. '—'What is it, Mint?' asked
all three. If our
young person hadn’t had the nurse part cut out, eh? She might have known more
and done less. I’d rather starve!”
For a moment the conversation hung upon that declaration. A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came
up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore
—embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed
swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of
watermen. ”
The official frowned.
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