PIGEONS. Sharpers, who, during the drawing of the lottery,
wait ready mounted near Guildhall, and, as soon as
the first two or three numbers are drawn, which they receive
from a confederate on a card, ride with them full
speed to some distant insurance office, before fixed on,
where there is another of the gang, commonly a decent
looking woman, who takes care to be at the office before
the hour of drawing: to her he secretly gives the number,
which she insures for a considerable sum: thus biting
the biter.