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A Rogue’s Life

CHAPTER XII
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You'll see these are three other fellows to be caught besides the principal rascal--one of them a scamp belonging to a respectable family.

Oh! what times! Take three copies, and pray circulate them in three influential quarters.

Perhaps that gentleman next you would like a few.

Will you take three, sir ?" "No, I won't," said the Bow Street runner doggedly.

"Nor yet one of 'em--and it's my opinion that the coining-gang would be nabbed all the sooner, if you was to give over helping the law to catch them." This answer produced a vehement expostulation from my excitable neighbor, to which I paid little attention, being better engaged in reading the handbill.
It described the doctor's personal appearance with remarkable accuracy, and cautioned persons in seaport towns to be on the lookout for him.


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