The Red Dragon (Volume 4); The National Magazine of Wales (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " You know the game of odd man out, don't you, sir ? Some folk, if you go in with them, will propose that odd man out shall pay. It's only a Sawney as can be sucked in that way. If you chum in with two friends, it's the Bank of England to a barley cake they understand each other, and you stand to win the payment every time. One of them is bound to get off, no matter how cute you are. If you must go odd man, and you're only one out of three, shake in the hat is the fairest; though there's fakements even in that. I could tell you a dodge." But possibly the reader has had enough of technicalities by this time. YELPING. As I think you will have gathered already, the police are great believers in the doctrine that the means must justify the end. A "girl," whom they know to be a " y e 1 p e r "?a term which the narrative will explain ?comes handy to their purposes on occasion. Her will they put into a cell with one or two other prisoners of the same sex and mode of life. Confidences will be exchanged, and then . Sometimes a character of this sort will " yelp " of her own free will; in order, thereby, to gratify her spite beast without ff or to curry favour with her captors, and per consequens to lead an easier life ever after. This was the case with Roley-Poley Poll, who had been nine-and- twenty times before us previous to the occasion now treated of. With her was locked up Peggy Mottletop, with- out exception one of the most degraded wretches in the whole list of my official acquaintance; a brute quality. Mrs. single redeeming human Mottletop ? for she was a widow ? had robbed some pig of the opposite sex of a watch, and, although she was taken into custody almost immediately afterwards, no trace of the stolen article could be discovered. She was re...