Cabbage - [kab-ij] Chiefly British
1. a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim.
2. slang - verb. To steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.
Cove - (kəʊv) Brit, Austral
1. old-fashioned , slang - a fellow; chap.
Cabbaging Cove: A scoundrel keen on pilfering [from the annals of not-so-distant history]!
About the Cabbaging Cove

Woman Jumping, Running Straight High Jump: Plate 156 from Animal Locomotion (1887)
Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, born England. 1830–1904)
1884-86.
MoMA
she looks like miss gulch.