Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . sell their goods. Catherine Lane was at one time a favorite resort for old coloredaunties, who with their cedar-stave pails filled with smoking-hotears of golden corn, and dressed in a clean gown and apron, wouldnightly sit on the corner curb-stone and in a rich, melodiousvoice sing out: Hot corn, hot corn —Heres your lily-white corn;All you thats got money(Poor me thats got none)Come buy my lily hot corn,And let me go home. I can still see the largegold hoop-rings that hungfrom their ears, far bel
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . sell their goods. Catherine Lane was at one time a favorite resort for old coloredaunties, who with their cedar-stave pails filled with smoking-hotears of golden corn, and dressed in a clean gown and apron, wouldnightly sit on the corner curb-stone and in a rich, melodiousvoice sing out: Hot corn, hot corn —Heres your lily-white corn;All you thats got money(Poor me thats got none)Come buy my lily hot corn,And let me go home. I can still see the largegold hoop-rings that hungfrom their ears, far below theyellow, blue, and red stripedbandanna, so nicely plaitedand folded over their shiny,well-combed hair. It wasoften a question in the mindof the old fire laddie on hisway home nights whether toa nice baked pear, which the tidy aunties carried around in adeep glazed earthenware dish, floating deliciously in a warm bathof home-made syrup. Who eats hot corn now, from a street ped-dler ? Not I, nor you. Water Street sailors, or those who havenot as yet eaten their peck of dirt, may do Peter Weir. luxuriate upon a lily-white corn or 58 Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies. Many an old fireman remembers the time when he has eatencrullers from a Park Row stand, hot corn from a cedar pail, orrelished a small plate from Holts cellar on Fulton Street, madefamous in bygone times as the place of all places that never the old jail bell rang for a down-town fire on the east side, toward
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