CHAPTER VII.

HOMES AND HAUNTS OF THE BRITISH THIEF. The Three Classes of Thieving Society.—Popular p. 108 Misapprehensions.—A True Picture of the London Thief.—A Fancy Sketch of the “Under-ground Cellar.”—In Disguise at a Thieves’ Raffle.—The Puzzle of “Black Maria.”—Mr. Mullins’s Speech and his Song