The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences. The smuggler's stories of lucky ventures and successful runs were capped by the footpad’s reminiscences of foggy nights and stolen watches.

Col. Isaac Trumbo, who made a fortune in Utah and lost it in San Francisco, died here to-day of injuries received last Saturday night, when he was beaten by footpads.

Coach Leather. The pliant but resolute stuff our grandfathers utilised to keep out wind, weather and footpads on the Great North Road or the Gundagai Track, according to whether you are Third or Fourth G.A.

Nemarluck, if wounded in the way described by the aborigines at Talc Head, will keep to the beaten footpad leading from Delissaville to the Finnis River, and in his weakened state, will not camp any night far from a waterhole or without a fire.

The rough dray track that leads to the south-cast soon becomes a poorly defined footpad which follows the tortuous pattern of the main spur through to Mount Everard, and then away to east and south to the far corner of the forest.

Ignore the minor foot pad to the left — it is a scrubby track leading to a climbers' site known as Geryon Campsite.

This AAWT track varies from a four wheel drive track along the Barry Mountains to a foot pad across the snow grass plains of the high country from Hotham to Mt Bogong.

When Mr. Kaiser was footpadded last December, the scare seemed to penetrate even the quiet town of Berkeley.

Before that 'e footpadded round Covent Garden with a crew o' other masterless soldiers an' suchlike, calling 'imself "Captain Gun", as nasty a bill o' goods as ever slit your pocket or cut your throat,' Pope added, with loathing for the many thousands of defeated men who had limped home to live off the city streets which, by right and custom already belonged to established families of beggars and pickpockets, dog snatchers and cloak snitchers.

To his first investment, Jack adds the money stolen by footpadding, all of which comes to £94 (CJ, 77).

But the joke is on me, for they unmasked me by footpadding me to the alley and stealing my clothes and shoes.

My dreams are secret, footpadding through darkness for fear the day arrest them.

And every little sneaky infidelity . . . every little back-alley footpadding to find some quickie with a hustler — where does that fit into the code?

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