fixed upon barrows, to different parts of town, but one principal stand
is in Holborn. On their boards are displayed the cough cures, both in
the form of “sticks” and “drops,” and a model of a small distillery.
The portion inclosing the still is painted to resemble brick-work, and
a tin tube, or worm, appears to carry the distillation to a receiver.
Horehound, colts-foot, and some other herbs lie in a dried state on the
stall, but principally horehound, to which popular (street) opinion
seems to attach the most and the greatest virtues. There are also
on the stalls a few bottles, tied up in the way they are dispensed
from a regular practitioner, while the cough drops are in the form of
sticks (1/2_d._ each), also neatly wrapped in paper. The cry is both
expressive and simply descriptive--“Long life candy! Candy from herbs!”
From the most experienced person in this curious trade, I had the
following statement. He entertained a full assurance, as far as I
could perceive, of the excellence of his remedies, and of the high art
and mystery of his calling. In persons of his class, professing to
heal, no matter in what capacity, or what may be the disease, this is
an important element of success. My informant, whether answering my
questions or speaking of his own accord, always took time to consider,
and sometimes, as will be seen, declined replying to my inquiries. From
him I received the following account:--
“The cough drop and herb trade is nothing now to what it was long ago.
Thirty or forty years ago, it was as good as 3_l._ or 4_l._ a week to
a person, and was carried on by respectable men. I know nothing of
any ‘humbugs’ in the respectable part of the trade. What’s done by
those who are ignorant, and not respectable, is nothing to me. I don’t
know how many there were in the trade thirty or forty years ago; but
I know that, ten or eleven years since, I supplied seven persons who
sold cough drops, and such like, in the streets, and now I supply only
myself and another. I sell only four or five months in the year--the
cold months, in course; for, in the summer, people are not so subject
to coughs and colds. I am the ‘original’ maker of my goods. I will
cure any child of the hooping-cough, and very speedily. I defy any
medical man to dispute it, and I’ll do it--‘no cure, no pay.’ I never
profess to cure asthma. Nobody but a gravedigger can put an end to
that there; but I can relieve it. It’s the same with consumption; it
may be relieved, but the gravedigger is the only man as can put a
stop to it. Many have tried to do it, but they’ve all failed. I sell
to very respectable people, and to educated people, too; and, what’s
more, a good deal (of cough drops) to medical men. In course, they can
analyse it, if they please. They can taste the bitter, and judge for
themselves, just as they can taste wine in the Docks. Perhaps the wives
of mechanics are among my best customers. They are the most numerous,
but they buy only ha’porths and penn’orths. Very likely, they would
think more of the remedy if they had to pay 13-1/2_d._ for it, instead
of the 1-1/2_d._ The Government stamp makes many a stuff sell. Oh! I
know nothing about quackery: you must inquire at the Stamp-office, if
you want to know about them kind of medicines. _They’re_ the people
that help to sell them. Respectable people will pay me 1_s._ or 2_s._
at a time; and those who buy once, buy again. I’m sent to from as far
off as Woolwich. I’ll undertake to cure, or afford relief, in coughs,
colds, or wind in the chest, or forfeit 1_s._ I can dispel wind in two
minutes. I sell bottles, too, for those cures (as well as the candy
from herbs): I manufacture them myself. They’re decoctions of herbs,
and the way to prepare them is my secret. I sell them at from 2_d._
to 1_s._ Why, I use one article that costs 24_s._ a pound, foreign,
and twice that English. I’ve sold hundred weights. The decoctions are
my secret. I will instruct any person--and have instructed a good
many--when I’m paid for it. In course, it would never do to publish it
in your work, for thousands would then learn it for 2_d._ My secret was
never given to any person--only with what you may call a fee--except
one, and only to him when he got married, and started in the line. He’s
a connection of mine. All _we_ sell is genuine.
“I sell herbs, too, but it’s not a street sale: I supply them to orders
from my connection. It’s not a large trade. I sell horehound, for
tea or decoctions; coltsfoot, for smoking as herb tobacco (I gather
the coltsfoot myself, but buy the horehound of a shopkeeper, as it’s
cultivated); ground-ivy is sold only for the blood (but little of it);
hyssop for wind; and Irish moss for consumption. I’m never asked for
anything improper. They won’t ask _me_ for ---- or ----. And I’m never
asked for washes or cosmetics; but a few nettles are ordered of me for
complexions.
“Well, sir, I’d rather not state the quantities I sell, or my profits,
or prices. I make what keeps myself, my wife, and seven children, and
that’s all I need say about it. I’d rather say no more on that part
of the business: and so, I’m sure you won’t press me. I don’t know
what others in the trade make. They buy of confectioners, and are
only imitators of me. They buy coltsfoot-candy, and such like; how
it’s made so cheap, I don’t know. In the summer, I give up cough-drop
selling, and take to gold fish.”
I am told that the cough-drop-makers, who are also street-sellers,
prepare their sticks, &c., much in the same method as the manufacturers
of the ordinary sweet-stuff (which I have described), using the
decoction, generally of horehound or coltsfoot, as the “scents” are
used. In the old times, it would appear that the preparation of a
medicinal confection was a much more elaborate matter, if we may judge
by the following extract from an obsolete medical work treating of the
matter. The author styles such preparations “lohochs,” which is an
Arabic word, he says, and signifies “a thing to be licked.” It would
appear that the lohoch was not so hard as the present cough-drop. The
following is one of the receipts, “used generally against diseases in
the breast and lungs:”--
“_Lohoch de farfara,” the Lohoch of Coltsfoot._
Take of coltsfoot roots cleansed 8 ozs., marsh-mallow roots 4 ozs.,
boil them in a sufficient quantity of water, and press the pulp
through a sieve, dissolve it again in the decoction, and let it boil
once or twice; then take it from the fire, and add 2 lbs. of white
sugar, honey of raisins 14 ozs., juice of liquorice 2-1/2 drams, stir
them well with a wooden pestle, sprinkling in of saffron and cloves
in powder, of each 1 scruple, cinnamon and mace, of each 2 scruples;
make them into a lohoch according to art. It is good for a cough and
roughness of the windpipe.
Without wishing to infringe upon professional secrets, I may mention
that the earnings of the principal man in the trade may be taken at
30_s._ a week for 20 weeks; that of another at 15_s._ for the same
period; and those of the remaining four at 5_s._ each, weekly; but
the latter sell acid drops, and other things bought of the chemists.
Allowing the usual cent. per cent., we then find 130_l._ expended by
street-buyers on cough-drops.
The best cough-drop stall seen in the streets is a kind of barrow,
which can be shut up like a piano: it cost 3_l._ 10_s._ complete
with the distilling apparatus before described. Scales and weights
cost 5_s._, and the stock-money for the supply of such a stall need
not exceed 10_s._; or, in all, about 4_l._ 10_s._ For an ordinary
trade--ready-made articles forming the stock--the capital would be,
stall and trestle, 7_s._; scales and weights (which are not always
used), 3_s._ 6_d._, and stock-money, 2_s._ 6_d._; in all, 13_s._
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF ICES AND OF ICE CREAMS.
I have already treated of the street luxury of pine-apples, and have
now to deal with the greater street rarity of ice-creams.
[Illustration: DOCTOR BOKANKY, THE STREET HERBALIST.
[_From a Daguerreotype by_ BEARD.]
“Now then for the Kalibonca Root, that was brought from Madras in
the East Indies. It’ll cure the toothache, head-ache, giddiness in
the head, dimness of sight, rheumatics in the head, and is highly
recommended for the ague; never known to fail; and I’ve sold it for
this six and twenty year. From one penny to sixpence the packet. The
best article in England.”]
A quick-witted street-seller--but not in the “provision”
line--conversing with me upon this subject, said: “Ices in the streets!
Aye, and there’ll be jellies next, and then mock turtle, and then
the real ticket, sir. I don’t know nothing of the difference between
the real thing and the mock, but I once had some cheap mock in an
eating-house, and it tasted like stewed tripe with a little glue.
You’ll keep your eyes open, sir, at the Great Exhibition; and you’ll
see a new move or two in the streets, take my word for it. Penny
glasses of champagne, I shouldn’t wonder.”
Notwithstanding the sanguine anticipations of my street friend, the
sale of ices in the streets has not been such as to offer any great
encouragement to a perseverance in the traffic.
The sale of ice-creams was unknown in the streets until last summer,
and was first introduced, as a matter of speculation, by a man who
was acquainted with the confectionary business, and who purchased his
ices of a confectioner in Holborn. He resold these luxuries daily to
street-sellers, sometimes to twenty of them, but more frequently to
twelve. The sale, however, was not remunerative, and had it not been
generally united with other things, such as ginger-beer, could not
have been carried on as a means of subsistence. The supplier of the
street-traders sometimes went himself, and sometimes sent another to
sell ice-cream in Greenwich Park on fine summer days, but the sale was
sometimes insufficient to pay his railway expenses. After three or
four weeks’ trial, this man abandoned the trade, and soon afterwards
emigrated to America.
Not many weeks subsequent to “the first start,” I was informed, the
trade was entered into by a street-seller in Petticoat-lane, who
had become possessed, it was said, of Masters’s Freezing Apparatus.
He did not vend the ices himself for more than two or three weeks,
and moreover confined his sale to Sunday mornings; after a while he
employed himself for a short time in making ices for four or five
street-sellers, some of whom looked upon the preparation as a wonderful
discovery of his own, and he then discontinued the trade.
There were many difficulties attending the introduction of ices into
street-traffic. The buyers had but a confused notion how the ice was
to be swallowed. The trade, therefore, spread only very gradually, but
some of the more enterprising sellers purchased stale ices from the
confectioners. So little, however, were the street-people skilled in
the trade, that a confectioner told me they sometimes offered ice to
their customers in the streets, and could supply only water! Ices were
sold by the street-vendors generally at 1_d._ each, and the trade left
them a profit of 4_d._ in 1_s._, when they served them “without waste,”
and some of the sellers contrived, by giving smaller modicums, to
enhance the 4_d._ into 5_d._; the profit, however, was sometimes what
is expressively called “nil.” Cent. per cent.--the favourite and simple
rate known in the streets as “half-profits” was rarely attained.
From a street-dealer I received the following account:--
“Yes, sir, I mind very well the first time as I ever sold ices. I don’t
think they’ll ever take greatly in the streets, but there’s no saying.
Lord! how I’ve seen the people splutter when they’ve tasted them for
the first time. I did as much myself. They get among the teeth and
make you feel as if you tooth-ached all over. I sold mostly strawberry
ices. I haven’t an idee how they’re made, but it’s a most wonderful
thing in summer--freezing fruits in that way. One young Irish fellow--I
think from his look and cap he was a printer’s or stationer’s boy--he
bought an ice of me, and when he had scraped it all together with the
spoon, he made a pull at it as if he was a drinking beer. In course
it was all among his teeth in less than no time, and he stood like
a stattey for a instant, and then he roared out,--‘Jasus! I’m kilt.
The could shivers is on to me!’ But I said, ‘O, you’re all right, you
are;’ and he says, ‘What d’you mane, you horrid horn,[8] by selling
such stuff as that. An’ you must have the money first, bad scran to the
likes o’ you!’
“The persons what enjoyed their ices most,” the man went on, “was, I
think, servant maids that gulped them on the sly. Pr’aps they’d been
used, some on ’em, to get a taste of ices on the sly before, in their
services. We sees a many dodges in the streets, sir--a many. I knew one
smart servant maid, treated to an ice by her young man--they seemed as
if they was keeping company--and he soon was stamping, with the ice
among his teeth, but she knew how to take hern, put the spoon right
into the middle of her mouth, and when she’d had a clean swallow she
says: ‘O, Joseph, why didn’t you ask _me_ to tell you how to eat your
ice?’ The conceit of sarvant gals is ridiculous. Don’t you think so,
sir? But it goes out of them when they gets married and has to think of
how to get broth before how to eat ices. One hot day, about eleven, a
thin tall gentleman, not very young, threw down 1_d._ to me, and says,
says he, ‘As much ice as you can make for that.’ He knew how to take
it. When he’d done, he says, says he, ‘By G--, my good feller, you’ve
saved my life. I’ve been keeping it up all night, and I was dying of a
burnt-up throat, after a snooze, and had only 1_d._ So sick and hot was
my stomach, I could have knelt down and taken a pull at the Thames’--we
was near it at the time--‘You’ve saved my life, and I’ll see you
again.’ But I’ve never see’d him since. He was a gentleman, I think. He
was in black, and wore a big black and gold ring--only one.
[8] I inquired as to what was meant by the reproachful appellation,
“horrid horn,” and my informant declared that “to the best of his
hearing,” those were the words used; but doubtless the word was
“omad-haun,” signifying in the Erse tongue, a half-witted fellow. My
informant had often sold fruit to the same lad, and said he had little
of the brogue, or of “old Irish words,” unless “his temper was riz, and
then it came out powerful.”
“The rest of my customers for ices, was people that bought out of
curiosity, and there was gentlemen’s servants among ’em, very little
fellows some of ’em; and doctors’ boys; and mechanics as was young and
seemed of a smartish sort; and boys that seemed like schoolboys; and a
few women of the town,--but mine’s not much of a pitch for them.”
From the information I obtained, I may state that, if the sale of
street ices be calculated at twenty persons _taking_, not earning,
1_s._ 6_d._ daily for four weeks, it is as near the mark as possible.
This gives an expenditure of 42_l._ in street ices, with a profit to
the vendors of from 10 to 25 per cent. I am told that an unsuccessful
start has characterised other street trades--rhubarb for instance, both
in the streets and markets--which have been afterwards successful and
remunerative.
For capital in the ice trade a small sum was necessary, as the vendors
had all stalls and sold other commodities, except the “original street
ice man,” who was not a regular street trader, but a speculator. A
jar--in which the ices were neither sufficiently covered nor kept
cooled, though it was often placed in a vessel or “cooler,” containing
cold water--cost 1_s._, three cups, 3_d._ (or three glasses, 1_s._),
and three spoons, 3_d._, with 2_s._ stock-money; the total is,
presuming glasses were used, 4_s._, or, with a vessel for water, 5_s._
OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND
DRINKABLES.
I now give a summary of the Capital and Income of the street-sellers of
eatables and drinkables. But, first, I will endeavour to arrive at an
estimate of the total number of people belonging to the class.
The street-sellers engaged in the sale of eatables and drinkables, are,
summing the several items before given, altogether 6,347: of whom 300
sell pea-soup and hot eels; 150, pickled whelks; 300, fried fish; 300,
sheeps’ trotters; 60, ham-sandwiches; 200, baked ’tatoes; 4, hot green
peas; 150, meat; 25, bread; 1,000, cat and dogs’ meat; 300, coffee
and tea; 1,700, ginger-beer, lemonade, sherbet, &c.; 50, elder-wine;
4, peppermint-water; 28, milk; 100, curds and whey and rice-milk; 60,
water; 50, pies; 6, boiled pudding; 6, plum “duff”; 150, cakes and
tarts; 4, plum-cakes; 30, other cheaper cakes; 150, gingerbread-nuts;
500, cross-buns; 500, muffins and crumpets; 200, sweet stuff; 6,
cough-drops; 20, ice-creams. But many of the above are only temporary
trades. The street-sale of hot cross-buns, for instance, lasts only
for a day; that of muffins and crumpets, baked potatoes, plum-“duff,”
cough-drops, elder-wine, and rice-milk, are all purely winter trades,
while the sale of ginger-beer, lemonade, ice-creams, and curds and
whey, is carried on solely in the summer. By this means the number of
the street-sellers of eatables and drinkables, never at any one time
reaches the amount before stated. In summer there are, in addition to
the 10,000 costers before mentioned, about 3,000 people, and in winter
between 4,000 and 5,000, engaged in the eatable and drinkable branch of
the street-traffic.
As regards the Capital and Income, many minute accounts have been
prepared.
To show the care, as well as the fulness with which these returns have
been made, I give one of the Tables in its integrity, merely remarking,
that similar tables relative to all the other articles have been made;
but I condense the details, lest a repetition, however curious in its
statistics, should prove wearisome:
CAPITAL, OR STOCK IN TRADE, OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND
DRINKABLES.
_Street-sellers of Hot Eels._ £ _s._ _d._
200 stalls, at 6_s._ 60 0 0
100 baskets, at 1_s._ 5 0 0
200 eel-kettles, at 3_s._ 6_d._ 35 0 0
100 jars for itinerants, at 6_d._ 2 10 0
300 stew-pans, at 2_s._ 30 0 0
300 strainers, at 1_s._ 15 0 0
300 ladles, at 4_d._ 5 0 0
2,400 cups, at 1_d._ 10 0 0
2,400 spoons, at 1_d._ 10 0 0
200 chafing-dishes, at 6_d._ 5 0 0
200 glasses for candles, at 3_d._ 2 10 0
240 vendors’ stock-money, at 5_s._ each 60 0 0
60 ditto, at 25_s._ each 75 0 0
100 itinerants’ ditto, at 2_s._ each 10 0 0
300 cloths, at 4_d._ each 5 0 0
300 pairs of sleeves, at 4_d._ per pair 5 0 0
300 aprons at 4_d._ each 5 0 0
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£339 10 0
_Street-sellers of Pea Soup._
150 soup-kettles, 4_s._ each; 150
ladles, 6_d._ each; 150 pepper-boxes,
1_d._ each; 150 mint-boxes, 3_d._ each;
150 chafing-dishes, 6_d._ each; 1,800
basons, 1_d._ each; 1,800 spoons, 1_d._
each; stock-money, 3_s._ 6_d._ each[9] 81 5 0
[9] The hot-eel trade being in conjunction with the pea-soup, the same
stall, candles, towels, sleeves, and aprons do for both.
_Street-sellers of Pickled Whelks._
100 stalls, 4_s._ each; 150 baskets,
2_s._ 6_d._ each; 150 tin boilers, 2_s._ 6_d._
each; 75 pans, 9_d._ each; 150 jars,
6_d._ each; 150 flour-dredgers, 4_d._
each; 1,800 saucers, 1/2_d._ each; 150
table-spoons, 2_d._ each; 150 knives,
2_d._ each; 150 vinegar-bottles, 1_d._
each; 150 serge aprons, 2_s._ each;
stock-money, for 150 vendors, 5_s._
each 125 18 9
_Street-sellers of Fried Fish._
300 trays, 1_s._ 6_d._ each; 300 frying-pans,
1_s._ 6_d._ each; 300 salt-dredgers,
3_d._ each; 300 knives, 2_d._
each; 300 earthenware pans, 1_s._
each; 300 shallows, 1_s._ each; stock-money,
for 150 vendors, 5_s._ each 156 5 0
_Street-sellers of Sheeps’ Trotters._
300 baskets, 1_s._ 4_d._ each; 300
cotton cloths, 4_d._ each; 300 forks,
2_d._ each; 300 knives, 3_d._ each; 300
pepper-boxes, 1_d._ each; 300 salt-cellars,
1_d._ each; stock-money, for
300 sellers, 1_s._ each 48 15 0
_Street-sellers of Ham Sandwiches._
60 baskets, 2_s._ each; 60 tin boilers,
2_s._ each; 60 knives and forks, 6_d._
per pair; 60 mustard-pots, 1_d._ each;
60 spoons, 1_d._ each; 60 cloths, 5_d._
each; 60 aprons, 4_d._ each; 60 pairs
of sleeves, 4_d._ per pair; stock-money
for 60 vendors, 7_s._ 2_d._ weekly 38 15 0
_Street-sellers of Baked ’Tatoes._
300 cans, 2_l._ each; 300 knives,
3_d._ each; 300 pepper-boxes, 1_d._
each; stock-money for 300 vendors,
10_s._ each 755 0 0
_Street-sellers of Hot Green Peas._
4 cans, 2_s._ 6_d._ each; 4 vinegar-bottles,
1_d._ each; 4 pepper-boxes,
3_d._ each; 12 saucers, 1_d._ each; 12
spoons, 1_d._ each; 4 cloths, 4_d._ each;
stock-money for 4 vendors, 2_s._ each 1 2 8
_Street-sellers of Meat_ (“_Hawking Butchers_.”)
150 baskets, 4_s._ 6_d._ each; 150
saws, 2_s._ each; 150 cleavers, 1_s._ 6_d._
each; 150 steels, 1_s._ 6_d._ each; 150
belts for baskets, 1_s._ each; 150 do.
for waist, 6_d._ each; 150 cloths, 6_d._
each; 150 aprons, 6_d._ each; 150
pairs of sleeves, 4_d._ per pair; 150
vendors’ stock-money, 6_s._ each per
day 138 5 0
_Street-sellers of Bread._
12 baskets, 4_s._ 6_d._ each; 12 barrows,
40_s._ each; 1 long bread-basket,
40_s._; 1 barrow, 30_s._; 13 sacks, 1_s._
each; stock-money for 25 vendors,
at 1_l._ each 55 17 0
_Street-sellers of Cats’ and Dogs’-meat._
500 barrows, 18_s._ each; 1,000
baskets, 1_s._ 6_d._ each; 500 sets of
weights and scales, 4_s._ each; 1,000
knives, 8_d._ each; 1,000 steels, 1_s._
each; stock-money of 1,500 vendors,
7_s._ 6_d._ per head 1,083 6 8
_Street-sellers of Coffee and Tea._
150 tables, 2_s._ 6_d._ each; 75 stalls,
6_s._ each; 75 coffee-barrows, 1_l._ each;
400 coffee-cans (100 vendors having
two cans, and 200 only one), 8_s._ each;
1,200 half-pint cups and saucers, 3_d._
each, and 900 pints, 6_d._ each; 2,100
spoons, 1_d._ each; 900 plates, 1-1/2_d._
each; 300 knives, 2_d._ each; 300
pans, 9_d._ each; 600 canisters, 5_d._
each; 50 screens, 2_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money
of 300 vendors, 5_s._ each 435 12 0
_Street-sellers of Ginger-beer._
300 barrows, 1_l._ each; 1,000 stalls,
5_s._ each; 175 fountains, 7_l._ each; 20
ditto, 20_l._ each; 3 ditto, 100_l._ each;
9,000 glasses, 5_d._ each; 1,500 tanks,
1_s._ each; 3,000 towels, 6_d._ each;
500 sets of brewing utensils, corks,
&c., 5_s._ each; 500 gross of bottles,
10_s._ per gross, and stock-money for
1,500 vendors, 5_s._ each 3,562 10 0
_Street-sellers of Lemonade, Nectar, Sherbet, &c._[10]
200 stalls, 6_s._ each; 500 stone
barrels, 5_s._ 6_d._ each; 1,200 glasses,
4-1/2_d._ each; 400 towels, 6_d._ each; 200
jars, 2_s._ each; 2,400 glass bottles,
3_d._ each; stock-money for 200 vendors,
2_s._ 6_d._ each 305 0 0
[10] There are altogether 500 vendors of lemonade in the streets,
but 300 of these sell also ginger-beer, and consequently do not have
separate stalls, &c.
_Street-sellers of Elder-wine._
3 elder-wine carriages and apparatus,
7_l._ each; 47 ditto ditto, 3_l._ 10_s._
each; 300 small wine-glasses, 2_d._
each; stock-money, 3_s._ per head 195 10 0
_Street-sellers of Peppermint-water._
2 kegs, 3_s._ 6_d._ each; 2 jars, 2_s._
each; 16 glasses, 3_d._ each; 4 cloths,
4_d._ each; stock-money, for four
vendors, 1_s._ each 1 0 4
_Milk-sellers in the Park._
16 cows, 20_l._ each; 8 lockers, 3_l._
each; 32 fixed seats, 3_s._ each; 48
forms, 3_s._ each; 48 glasses, 4-1/2_d._
each; 96 cups, 1_d._ each; 8 halters,
for cows, 6_d._ each; 8 pans, 1_s._ each;
16 towels, 6_d._ each 358 6 0
_Milk-sellers in Markets, &c._
20 yokes and pairs of cans, 15_s._
each; 20 sets of measures, 2_s._ per
set; stock-money for 20 vendors, 3_s._
each 20 0 0
_Street-sellers of Curds and Whey._
100 stalls, 5_s._ each; 100 saucepans,
to scald the milk in, 2_s._ each;
300 cups, 1_d._ each; 300 glasses, 5_d._
each; 600 spoons, 1/2_d._ each; 100
tin kettles, for stalls, at 3_s._ 6_d._ each;
100 small tubs, 1_s._ each; 100 cloths,
3_d._ each; stock-money for 100 vendors,
at 2_s._ each 77 10 0
_Street-sellers of Rice-milk._[11]
50 kettles and braziers, for stall,
4_s._ the two; 300 spice or peppermint-boxes,
1_d._ each; stock-money for
fifty vendors, 1_s._ 3_d._ each 14 7 6
[11] The street-sellers of rice-milk are included in the street-sellers
of curds and whey; hence the stalls, saucepans, cups, &c., of the two
classes are the same.
_Water-carriers._
120 pails, 2_s._ each; 60 yokes, 5_s._
each 27 0 0
_Street Piemen._
50 pie-cans, 1_l._ each; 25 turn
halfpenny boards, to gamble with,
2_s._ 6_d._ each; 50 gross of tin pie-dishes,
12_s._ per gross; 50 aprons,
8_d._ each; 100 tins, 1_s._ each (for
baking pies upon), stock-money, for
50 vendors, 6_s._ 6_d._ each 106 0 10
_Street-sellers of Boiled Puddings._
6 stands, 6_s._ each; 6 cans, 2_s._ 6_d._
each; 6 pots (tin), 2_s._ each; 6
chafing-dishes and stands, 5_d._ each;
6 forks, 2_d._ each; 6 cloths, 6_d._ each;
stock-money, for 6 vendors, 2_s._ 6_d._
each 4 4 6