They vary their mode of proceeding according to situation and circumstance.

Your money-dropper contrives to find his own property, as if by chance.
He picks up the purse with an exclamation of 'Hallo! what have we here ?--Zounds! if here is not a prize--I'm in rare luck to-day--Ha, ha, ha, let's have a peep at it--it feels heavy, and no doubt is worth having.' While he is examining its contents, up comes his confederate, who claims a share on account of having been present at the finding.
'Nay, nay,' replies the finder, 'you are not in it.

This Gentleman is the only person that was near me--was not you, Sir?
'By this means the novice is induced to assent, or perhaps assert his prior claim.

The finder declares, 1 The practice of ring-dropping is not wholly confined to London, as the following paragraph from the Glasgow Courier, a very short time ago, will sufficiently prove:--'On Monday afternoon, when three Highland women, who had been employed at a distance from home in the harvest, were returning to their habitations, they were accosted by a fellow who had walked out a short way with them, 'till he picked up a pair of ear-rings and a key for a watch.

The fellow politely informed the females that they should have half the value of the articles, as they were in his company when they were found.