Fifty years ago . heir weight in gold, you shall have the box for thirty shillin. Say the word, my cap-tain, and come round the cornerwith me. Honest tar! -Shall we meethim to-morrow with anotherparcel tied in the same ban-danna, his face screwed upwith the same perplexity andanxiety to get rid of his valu-able burden? You , will have your (From a Drawing by George Cruik- cOnfidcnCe trlck, VOUr ring-shank in London Characters ) ^ J o dropper, your thimble-and-pea,your fat partridge-seller, even though the bold smugglerbe no more. In the matter of street music we of Thirty-
Fifty years ago . heir weight in gold, you shall have the box for thirty shillin. Say the word, my cap-tain, and come round the cornerwith me. Honest tar! -Shall we meethim to-morrow with anotherparcel tied in the same ban-danna, his face screwed upwith the same perplexity andanxiety to get rid of his valu-able burden? You , will have your (From a Drawing by George Cruik- cOnfidcnCe trlck, VOUr ring-shank in London Characters ) ^ J o dropper, your thimble-and-pea,your fat partridge-seller, even though the bold smugglerbe no more. In the matter of street music we of Thirty-seven areperhaps in advance of you of Eighty-seven. We havenot, it is true, the pianoforte-organ, but we have al-ready the other two varieties—the Eumbling Dronerand the Light Tinkler. We have not yet the streetnigger, or the banjo, or the band of itinerant blacks,or Christys Minstrels. The negro minstrel does notexist in any form. But the ingenious Mr. Eice is atthis very moment studying the plantation songs of. A GREENWICH PENSIONEK IN THE STREET 53 South Carolina, and we can already witness his humor-ous personation of Jump, Jim Crow, and his patheticballad of Lucy Neah (He made his first appearanceat the Adelphi as Jim Crow in 1836.) We have, likeyou, the Christian family in reduced circumstances,creeping slowly, hand in hand, along the streets, sing-ing a hymn the while for the consolation it have not yet invented Moody and Sankey, andtlierefore they cannot sing Hold the Fort or Dareto be a Daniel, but there are hymns in every collection
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