Ways That Are Dark. Some Records of Roguery.

By Ralph Stock, R. L. C. Morrison, and A. E. MacGrotty.

“For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain,” says Bret Harte’s famous poem, “the heathen Chinee is peculiar.” The subjoined examples of clever rascality, however, show that the Celestial has by no means a monopoly of the gentle art of living at other people’s expense.