Appliances for picking pockets, &c.
1795.
| Thus have I seen a thief…. | |
| Slink all so kindly ’mong the gathering crowd, | |
| And in their pockets use his diving hooks. | |
| Gazette of the U.S., Phila., March 2. |
1821. [The boy] fastened his little thieving hooks upon a pair of silver pint mugs.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 1.
