London Labour
章节目录
共 115 段- 1. _The Street-Performers_, who admit of being classified in
- “Virtue,” says Shakespeare, “is of so little regard in these
- “Shove-halfpenny” is another game played by them; so is “Thr
- The long zig-zag staircase that leads to the pay box is crow
- “Well, times is bad, sir,” he said, “but it’s a deadish time
- The pony--or donkey--carts (and the latter is by far the mor
- The money-lenders, (from the following statement, made to me
- My inquiries among the costermongers induced one of their nu
- To form the theatre, the first floor had been removed; the w
- “There’s six on us in family, and father and mother makes ei
- The costermonger’s love of a good strong boot is a singular
- “I never knew things so bad as at present--never! I had six
- The reason, or one reason, why the shopkeepers’ trade is co-
- There are, during the day, two periods for the sale of stree
- “I have sold ‘wet fish’ in the streets for more than fourtee
- “I was in the s’rimp trade since I was a girl. I don’t know
- In commerce, all fruit which is edible as it is taken from t
- The most intelligent costers whom I conversed with agreed th
- Nothing could be seen in this strange place that did not, in
- “I am a general dealer,” said one of the better class; “my m
- Some of the results indicate, curiously enough, the characte
- My object in calling this meeting was to ascertain from the
- About 1825, as nearly as my informant could recollect, these
- The one thing that struck me during my visit to this neighbo
- On all the kinds of loans with which the poor Irish are aide
- The returns as to the other articles of food sold in the str
- The game and poultry street-sellers, I am told, soon find ou
- All these commodities used to be hawked in the streets, and
- Of flower-girls there are two classes. Some girls, and they
- “I did well on fuschias last season,” said one of my informa
- The sale of the May, the fragrant flower of the hawthorn, a
- The small tin tray is generally carried by the young childre
- “I sell chickweed and grunsell, and turfs for larks. That’s
- Plantain is sold extensively, and is given to canaries, but
- The best time of the year for the hot eels is from the middl
- The fried fish-sellers live in some out of the way alley, an
- I then had some conversation with the poor lad. He’d had man
- “I’ve hawked, sir--well, perhaps for fifteen years. My fathe
- “Come the 25th of March, sir, and I shall have been 26 years
- The coffee-stall keepers usually sell coffee and tea, and so
- In showing the money expended in the ginger-beer trade it mu
- A woman who had sold “cruds”--as the street-people usually c
- The sale of _boiled_ puddings, meat and currant--which might
- I have already specified the materials required to make 56 l
- The two principal vendors of cough drops wheel their stalls,
- _Street-sellers of Plum-duff._
- The patterers or oratorical street-sellers include among the
- It is to be supposed that, in country districts, where there
- “That’s a trump, to the present day. Why, I’d go out now, si
- “The Pope, sir,” he began, “was as one-sided to chaunt as to
- The “editions” cried by these men during the war-time often
- “I have taken my 5_s._ a day (said my informant); but ‘paper
- “The latter have raised barricades in various places, and ha
- Having now giving an account of those who may be called the
- “There is an old proverb, that ‘It is an ill wind that blows
- “George and his two fellow-labourers were ‘square-rigged’--t
- From the frequent state of weariness to which I have alluded
- _Cambridge._--“The grand town of all. London in miniature. I
- “The _Reverend_ Mr. Shorthand” [his real name is of no
- “Middlin’, sir,” he said, “times is middlin’ with me; they m
- The sale of pocket-books, in the streets, is not, I was told
- So take your time Miss Jenny,
- The sellers of these articles (play-bills excepted), are of
- The above style of work is known in the trade as “the book;”
- The sellers of play-bills purchase their stock of the printe
- “To the Lord Spencer, My Lord, when a new book comes into th
- One experienced man in the book-stall trade calculated that
- The artists who work for the street-sellers are less numerou
- A man who, until the charges of which I have before spoken,
- The class of patterers with whom we have here to deal are th
- Mrs. Taggart, Bayswater (her husband is a Unitarian minister
- “I believe this parish was one of the most fearfully demoral
- But a still larger class than all, are the beaten-out mechan
- These men have several articles which they sell singly, such
- “Often after I’ve been walking, my limbs and back ache so ba
- The swag-shops (of which I state the numbers in a parenthesi
- “My father was a farmer, sir. He had two farms, about 800 ac
- “Well, sir, as I said, I come out of the hospital stone blin
- One “old hand” calculated, that when a street-jeweller could
- This class is hardly known in the streets of London at prese
- Of these swag-barrowmen, there are not less than 150, and th
- “I was born in Brewer-street, St. James,” he said, in answer
- Under this head I include only such of the beggar street-sel
- The hucksters of crockery-ware are a considerable class. One
- Of stone fruit there are now usually six street sellers, and
- Now, this extension of the markets necessarily involved some
- Of the way of trading of a travelling-pedlar I had the follo
- The cases are not a few where ruin has followed a connection
- The lace, which is the principal staple of this trade, is “e
- The sale of waistcoats is confined to Smithfield, as regards
- “Yes, sir,” said the blind woman, as I questioned her furthe
- ‘You feeling Christians look with pity,
- “Do you know, I can hear any substance in the street as I pa
- “I was born in Northumberland,” he said, “about five-and-fif
- To show the class of characters usually frequenting these
- “I am now twenty-eight, and have known all connected with th
- A meeting of an unprecedented character was held at the Brit
- A young man, 18 years of age, and of a miserable and ragged
- In liquid blacking the trade is now small. It is occasionall
- The trade is only known in the streets at holiday seasons, a
- Among such matters of street-trade are the elastic toys call
- The street stick-sellers are, I am assured, sometimes about
- The cigar street-trade was started by two Jews, brothers, na
- “They call me _Dick the Dollman_. I was, I believe, the firs
- The rat-catcher’s dress is usually a velveteen jacket, stron
- “I had two wives. After two or tree year when I come I marry
- In the course of the narratives and statements I have given,
- _The state of education_ among the female street-sellers is
- “’Deed thin, sir, it’s more than 20 long years since I came
- Another cause of the abundance of street-dealers among the b
- Yes, he had heer’d of God who made the world. Couldn’t exact
- At this season of the year great numbers of the street-child
- This boy seemed healthy, wore a suit of corduroy, evidently
- 5 boxes, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money
- PAGE