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Excerpt from The Life of Jonathan Wild, From His Birth to His Death: Containing His Rise and Progress in Roguery; His First Acquaintance With Thieves; By What Arts He Made Himself Their Head, or Governor; His Disciple Over Them; His Policy and Great Cunning in Governing Them; And the Several Classes of Thieves Under His Co
At the ufual Age, when young yondtlmn had been infirué'ted to a moderate degree of Learning, fuch as Writing and Accounts, he was put Prentice to a Buckle maker, whom he ferv' d feven Years honeftly enough; when ihat Time was expired, he carry'd on a little peddling Bufinefs himfelf in the fame Way; burl-yéndi'b¿n Lwanted Application, which is generally obferv'd to be the Fault of Men of brisk Parts: Work and he were too much at Variance for him 'to' thrive' by his Trade; he feem'd,to follow it only'at a Diftance, often playing the L'oofe, wandering from one Ale houfe to another, with the. Very worfi, tho' the married Company in the Place, and was particularly fond gt the {trolling Aé'tors that now and then frequented that Country. (3)
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