Such a one was the famous Calébar, the dreaded thief-taker of the Pampas, the Vidocq of Buenos Ayres.

BECHDOLT, FREDERICK R. Horse thief trail.

"Then thief-man too muchee flighten' an' giveum back jug plenty dam quick.

Leslie Charteris (A); 22Oct64; R347287. Thieves picnic.

Breaking of the horse thief pool.

Teachers of theftChildren the dupes of the profligateAn effort at detectionAfflicting cases of early depravityProgress of a young delinquentChildren employed in theft by their parentsIngenuity of juvenile thievesResults of an early tuition in crimeThe juvenile thief incorrigibleFacility of disposing of stolen propertyA hardened childParents robbed by their childrenA youthful suicideA youthful murderer CHAPTER III.

The Horse thief trap.

"There was a hole in fell dyke and Swinset sheep are thief sheep, varra bad to hoad.

Thief island, by Elizabeth Coatsworth.

Thieves kitchen.

But I am not a constable nor a thief catcher.

He had originally devoted himself to the first; and probably his initiation in the mysteries of thieving qualified him to be peculiarly expert in the profession of a thief-takera profession he had adopted, not from choice, but necessity.

The men whom Jean ushered in proved to be, outwardly, what Duchemin had expected: of a class only too well-known to him, plain men of the people, unassuming, well-trained and informed, sceptical; not improbably shrewd hands in the game of thief-taking.

For, apart from the trouble, there came ever in his dealings with thieves that old timid thought of his, that, if he examined too closely their thief-tenure, they might examine too closely his despot-tenure.

Thief N. thief, robber, homo triumliterarum

Perhaps, however, the "grapes are always sour," or sufficiently high up to give the would-be thief time to think of the penalty, which probably would be "higher" still.

" "Dearest," cooed the other, "that would make me a thief ag-ain, and this time guilty.

Catching a Thief XCIX.

She was quite hot and red, and she snatched me away, and said that Jack was a thief andand a vagbag, or something like that.

I could tell stories of Elders that found and took my wood that should make professional thieves blush.

"When thou a thief didst see Thou join'st with him in sin.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

"Anyhow, the company is less mixed," he said, "than it was all winter up at twenty-three, where they had a Presbyterian missionary down the shaft, a Salvation Army captain turnin' the windlass, a nigger thief dumpin' the becket, and a dignitary of the Church of England doin' the cookin', with the help of a Chinese chore-boy.

There was a time, during the Turkish regime before the War, when Cook's Agency took tourists in parties to El-Kerak, and all the protection necessary was a handful of Turkish soldiers, whose thief employment on the trip was to gather fuel and pitch tents.

"Don't interfere with our friendly patter," cried out his thief neighbor, who for this exclamation was thrown into the dungeon.