demane climbed down temeraire 's side , to speak with the convicts in the belly-netting ; and swung back up again to report : telly had been trained up as a carpenter , once , and had so called himself ; but convicted of debt in the amount of andpound ; 2 5d 7s at the age of sixteen had gone through a window in london to snatch a few goods to repay ; finding this a more lucrative profession , he had given over hopes of respectability ; he was , in short , a thief : a second-story man , sentenced to twenty years of transportation and hard labor .