. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. -women, a char-coal stove accom-panying theirbarrow, so thattheir customersmight have themhot, and , too, might be seen a man with band-boxes, carriedon cither end of a pole, which rested on his 6d. to 3s. was their price ; whilst boxes { slightdeal, with a lock and key, might be purchased from 3s. 6s. 6d. These boxes were of home manufacture, andgave employment to many industrious families. Brickdust was carried about on donkey back, in smallsacks, and retailed at the price of one penny
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. -women, a char-coal stove accom-panying theirbarrow, so thattheir customersmight have themhot, and , too, might be seen a man with band-boxes, carriedon cither end of a pole, which rested on his 6d. to 3s. was their price ; whilst boxes { slightdeal, with a lock and key, might be purchased from 3s. 6s. 6d. These boxes were of home manufacture, andgave employment to many industrious families. Brickdust was carried about on donkey back, in smallsacks, and retailed at the price of one penny per IJUY A TltAT ! A KAT TKAT 1 UUY MY TRAP I STREET CRIES. 273 A contemporary remarks, As brickdust is scarcely usedin London for any other purpose than that of knife clean-ing, the criers are not numerous; but they are remark-able for their fondness, and their training, of bull predilection they have in common with the lamp-lighters of the Metropolis, The accompanying sketch of a Rat-trap Dealer is graphicand good ; and it shows one glimpse of the past, in the oldcobbler (?) at his /mtch, or low open door. This, or acellar, always went as an accompaniment to this branchof the shoe-making trade. To future antiquarians, it may be useful to know that, atthe commencement of this century, our domestic animalshad their purveyors of food ; that cats, and dogs meat,consisting of horse flesh, bullocks livers, and tripe cuttings,were distributed by means of men, or preferably, women,all over London. The horse flesh, and bullocks liver, wassold by weight at lb.; the tripe, in bund
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