I'm a professional finger smith. He spoke the word solemnly and proudly, as though he were telling me that he was the president of the royal college of surgeons or the archbishop of canterbury. Pickpockets is coarse and vulgar people who only do easy, little amateur jobs. They lift money from blind old ladies. Fingersmiths never listen. I could take the false teeth out of your mouth if i wanted to, and you wouldn't even catch me. That policeman's going to check up on you pretty thoroughly. It's written down in his black book. Some of them can't even remember their own names with a decent memory. But it isn't trouble