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tive proofs of our accuracy and intimate knowledge of the subjects treated as would convince the most incredulous reader; and as for materials we have such a superabundance as would fill another volume,—intelligence flowing from a hundred quarters, but which is postponed for the present.[1] Suffice it to say, that some of us have had communications, more or less, with Conkey Beau, Tit Shiels, Bill Soames, Kelting Bight, Hoppy Cole, Mr. Pullen,—little Roberts, Old Smith, Mr. B. Jack Pettit, Bill Colebrook, and almost every living soul mentioned in these pages, at one time or other, or under one garb or another.
N.B. The judicious reader will see, that by our exposing thus accurately the modes of perpetrating crime, those of prevention must become apparent.
In revising these pages as they went to press, we passed over several smaller errors, which fastidious people may say ought to have been amended, from the sentiment that "one may as well be right as wrong." This, however, is not our feeling: we discover our greatest errors to have been these, 1. Spelling a man's name amiss; 2. Attributing the adventure of one man
- ↑ Shortly will be published, of the same size as this volume, A Companion to the Guide; or the Complete London Tradesman; showing what are the means made use of by honourable men, in conducting their business, trade, or commerce: and also what are the knaveries practised upon upright tradesmen, by the over-keen and disreputable among themselves. By the Editor of "the Guide."
