. Gallery of comicalities : . * Hearth-stones ! Do you want any hearthstones? Now, mymaids, heres your right sort—reglar gooduns, and no mistake—vorth two oyour shop harticles, and at half the price. Now mypretty von, lay out a tanner, and charge your missus a bob—andno cheating neither ! the cook has always a right to make hermarket penny and to assist a poor cove like me in the bargain. Theyre good uns, you will find— Choose any, Marm, as you prefer;You looks so handsome and so kind,Im sure youll be a customer. Three halfpence, Marm, for this here pair—I only vish as you vould try em;Im sure
. Gallery of comicalities : . * Hearth-stones ! Do you want any hearthstones? Now, mymaids, heres your right sort—reglar gooduns, and no mistake—vorth two oyour shop harticles, and at half the price. Now mypretty von, lay out a tanner, and charge your missus a bob—andno cheating neither ! the cook has always a right to make hermarket penny and to assist a poor cove like me in the bargain. Theyre good uns, you will find— Choose any, Marm, as you prefer;You looks so handsome and so kind,Im sure youll be a customer. Three halfpence, Marm, for this here pair—I only vish as you vould try em;Im sure youll say the price is fair— Come, Marm, a penny if youll buy em. There, Betty ! I have often saidIt isnt dress that makes gentility ;For do observe this hearth-stone blade,How well he understands ciwility. 102 2 u 2 GALLERY OF XCIX. THE LONDON BARRO W-W OMAN. Round and sound,Two-pence a , rare ripe cherries ! Cherries a hapenny a stickCome and pick ! come and pick !Cherries big as plums ! who comes, who comes ? The late George Cruikshank, whose pencil was ever dis-tinguished by power of decision in every character he sketched,and whose close observation of passing men and manners wasunrivalled by any artist of his day, contributed the LondonBarrow-woman to the pages of Hones Every-Day Book in1826 from his own recollection of her. 103 GALLERY OF C. THE LADY AS CRIES CATS MEAT,
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