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London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1

  
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
  
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  
PREFACE.
  
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LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR. — THE STREET-FOLK.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FISH.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
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OF THE STATIONARY STREET-SELLERS OF FISH, FRUIT, AND VEGETABLES.
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OF THE STREET-IRISH.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF GAME, POULTRY (LIVE AND DEAD), RABBITS, BUTTER, CHEESE, AND EGGS.
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OF THE SELLERS OF TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS (CUT AND IN POTS), ROOTS, SEEDS, AND BRANCHES.
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STREET-SELLERS OF GREEN STUFF.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND DRINKABLES.
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OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND DRINKABLES.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.
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OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.
  
CAPITAL OR VALUE OF THE STOCK-IN-TRADE OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
  
INCOME, OR AVERAGE ANNUAL "TAKINGS," OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.
  
AN EPITOME OF THE PATTERING CLASS.
  
OF THE "SCREEVERS," OR WRITERS OF BEGGING-LETTERS AND PETITIONS.
  
OF THE PROBABLE MEANS OF REFORMATION.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.
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OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS.
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OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.

  
ERRATA.
  
INDEX.
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OF RELIGIOUS TRACT SELLERS.

The sellers of religious tracts are now, I am
informed, at the least, about 50, but they were
at one time, far more numerous. When penny
books were few and very small, religious tracts
were by far the cheapest things in print. It is
common, moreover, for a religious society, or
an individual, to give a poor person, children
especially, tracts for sale. A great many tract
sellers, from 25 to 35 years ago, were, or pre-

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tended to be, maimed old soldiers or sailors.
The traffic is now in the hands of what may be
called an anomalous body of men. More than
one half of the tract sellers are foreigners, such
as Malays, Hindoos, and Negros. Of them,
some cannot speak English, and some — who
earn a spare subsistence by selling Christian
tracts — are Mahometans, or worshippers of
Bramah! The man whose portrait supplies
the daguerreotyped illustration of this number
is unable to speak a word of English, and the
absence of an interpreter, through some acci-
dent, prevented his statement being taken at the
time appointed. I shall give it, however, with
the necessary details on the subject, under
another head.

With some men and boys, I am informed,
tract-selling is but a pretext for begging.

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