Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . little house in whichmight interest the neighbours, could theymanage to peer through its closely-curtainedwindow. Over the coke fire hangs a melting-pot, aniron ladle is l)ing before it, and an electricbattery stands on the mantelshelf On thetable, beside a shapeless mass of brightmetal, are some odd-looking slabs of plasterof Paris ; and seated before it is an elderly. .\ SHOP-LUTHK. man in a leather apron at work with histools. One by one he picks up the glitteringwhite discs that lie be
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . little house in whichmight interest the neighbours, could theymanage to peer through its closely-curtainedwindow. Over the coke fire hangs a melting-pot, aniron ladle is l)ing before it, and an electricbattery stands on the mantelshelf On thetable, beside a shapeless mass of brightmetal, are some odd-looking slabs of plasterof Paris ; and seated before it is an elderly. .\ SHOP-LUTHK. man in a leather apron at work with histools. One by one he picks up the glitteringwhite discs that lie before him on a board,nijjs off from each its long tail of metal,and touches up its milled edge at the pointof fracture. They look like siher coins—crowns, half-crowns, and florins—but theRoyal Mint would repudiate them all. Thisdingy attic is the workshop of a notoriouscoiner—a smasher, in the jargon of crime—well known in the old honest days asthe cleverest sihersmith in Clerkenwell, butan inveterate criminal now. H(.)w are his spurious wares foisted on themarket ? This smartly-dressed coujjle walk-ing arm-in-arm down Old Street are amonghis patrons, and will illustrate the methodsof the snide pitcher, or passer of badmoney, as they are practised dail\ in with a purseful of good coin of therealm and a single piece of snide, thewoman selects for her field of action thoseshops \\hich are in charge of lads or elderlywomen ; her partner, as she ente
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