The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . ed entranced A round in rings,While timmer tumblers swung an danced On horse-hair strings. An bawbee dalls the fashions apit,Sae rosy cheekit, jimpy shapit,An wee bit lasses gazed an gapit Wi mouth an frae their mithers they had scrapit The prized bawbee. The itinerant vendor, with his cry of Here s yer toysfor girls an boys, an bawbee whups for fardins, was to bemet throughout the principal streets ; while another toy crywas:— Young lambs to sell,Young lambs to sell;If I had as much money as I could tell,I wu
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . ed entranced A round in rings,While timmer tumblers swung an danced On horse-hair strings. An bawbee dalls the fashions apit,Sae rosy cheekit, jimpy shapit,An wee bit lasses gazed an gapit Wi mouth an frae their mithers they had scrapit The prized bawbee. The itinerant vendor, with his cry of Here s yer toysfor girls an boys, an bawbee whups for fardins, was to bemet throughout the principal streets ; while another toy crywas:— Young lambs to sell,Young lambs to sell;If I had as much money as I could tell,I wudna be here wi young lambs to sell. Such cries are heard no more, but occasionally vendors ofmechanical toys, principally Englishmen, take up their standat the kerb on Princes Street. 2e 218 THE EDINBURGH STREET TRADERS Who has not known from childhood the famiUar sightof the barrow with its load of toy-balloons, and paper flags,and the cry of Gather up, gather up old rags and bones ?This type of vendor is still to be seen on the streets, but the Tj^SXTAMEJSTT SQlTAJli:. Here Peter ^tandj, and stares around,Ant? dies old- clothes ysith folemi* actual cry is rarely heard. The collectors of rags now relymore on the house-to-house visitation than on barteringtoys, and the housewife opening her door is met by such arequest as, See if ye hinna ony auld rags and bottles or auldlum hats aboot ye ; just see. The purchasers of old clothes have no doubt cUmbed up AND THEIR CRIES 219 the stairs of Edinburgh for centuries, and the cry of Oldclothes, sometimes abbreviated to Ole clo, must have beenfamiliar to generations. Householders are too well acquaintedwith the great army of old clothes collectors, who seem tobe continually ringing house beUs, and with the heavy-ladenwomen who stagger home under the burdens on their backs. Articles for purposes of ignition have been the subjectof various cries. First in order was the spunk, a piece ofstick about six inches long, smeared with
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