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INDEX.
Arts (fine), street-sellers of, 301; capital and income of,
306Art (street), 301
Author and poet (street), experience of, 279
Ballad minstrelsy in the streets, ancient and modern, 273
Ballads (street) on a subject, 275
Back numbers, street sale of, 289
Beggar street-sellers, 363
— statement of a, 414
Beetle wafers, street-sellers of, 435
Billingsgate, description of, 64
— market, quantity and weight of fish sold in, 63
Blacking and black-lead, street-sellers of, 425
Blind street-seller of boot-laces, 395
— female street-seller of small wares, 393
— street seller of tailors' needles, 340
— boot-lace seller, life of, 405
Book auctioneers (street), 296
Booksellers (street), 292
— experience of, 294
Books sold in the streets, character of, 293
— (memorandum) and almanacks, street sale of, 271
— (pocket) and diaries, street sale of, 271
— (song), street sale of, 298
— (children's), street sale of, 298
— (guide), street sale of, 299
— (account), street sale of, 299
Boot and stay-laces, street-sellers of, 391
Boys of the costermongers and their "bunse," 33
Braces, belts, hose, trowser-straps, and waistcoats, street-
sellers of, 389Bread, street sale of, 178
Broadsheets, street sellers of, 280
Buns (hot-cross and Chelsea), street-sellers of, 201
Butter, cheese, and eggs, 129
Cake, street-sellers of, 199
Cakes and tarts, street-sellers of, 198
Cards (engraved), street-sellers of, 266
— (gelatine), street-sellers of, 266
— (playing), street-sellers of, 266
— (race) and lists of races, street-sellers of, 265
— (short-hand), street-sellers of, 261
Card-counters, medals, &c., street-sellers of, 349
Cats' and dogs'-meat, street-sellers of, 181
Cement for glass and china, street-sellers of, 429
Chaunters, experience of, 226
Cheap John, or street hansellers, 326
— life of a, 336
Chemical articles of manufacture, street-sellers of, 425
Chickweed and groundsell, street-sellers of, 153
Children in low lodging-houses, 257
— causes which influence them to take to a street
career, 472— as street-sellers sent out by parents 479
Christmasing, laurel, ivy, holly, and mistletoe, street-
sellers of, 141Cigar lights or fuzees, street-sellers of, 433
Cigars, street-sellers of, 441
"Cocks," &c., 238
Coffee-stall keepers, 183
Comic exhibitions, magical delusions, &c., street-sellers
of, 286Conundrums, street-sellers of, 285
Conveyances of costermongers and other street-folk, 26
Corn-salve, street-sellers of, 428
Costermongers, ancient calling of, 7
— and other street-folk, number of, 4
— capital of, 29
— capital and income of, 55
— children, education of, 24
— cries, rounds, and days of, 52
— diet and drink of, 52
— donkeys of, 29
— dress of, 51
— earnings of, 54
— education of, 35
— gambling of, 16
— habits and amusements of, 11
— homes of, 47
— honesty of, 26
— juvenile trading of, 35
— language of, 23
— literature of, 25
— markets and trade rights of, 58
— marriage and concubinage of, 20
— nicknames of, 24
— obsolete cries of, 8
— politics of, 20
— providence and improvidence of, 56
Costermongers, raffles of, 58
— religion of, 21
— removal from streets of, 59
— tricks of, 61
— uneducated state of, 22
Costermongering mechanics, 7
Costermongers and thieves, 46
— in bad weather and during the cholera, 57
— on their country rounds, 53
— the more provident, 46
— economically considered, 8
Coster boy, hired, 481
Coster girls, 43
— girl, life of a, 45
— lad, life of a, 39
— education of, 35
Cough-drops and medical confectionery, street-sellers
of, 205Country lodging-houses, 423
Crackers and detonating balls, street-sellers of, 430
Crippled seller of nutmeg-graters, 329
Crockery and glass-ware, street-sellers of, 365
Covent-garden market, 81
Curds and whey, street sale of, 192
Cutlery, street-sellers of, 338
Death and fire hunters, 228
Dog collars, street-sellers of, 358
Dog-collar seller, life of a, 359
Dolls, street-sellers of, 445
Drinkables, street sale of, 183
Duffers, or hawkers of pretended smuggled goods, 383
Eatables and drinkables, street-sellers of, 258
— capital and income of, street-sellers of, 208
— sums spent yearly upon, 212
Elder wine (hot), street-sellers of, 189
Engravings in umbrellas, street-sellers of, 362
Female street-sellers, localities in which they reside, 461
— education, state of, 462
— diet of, 462
Fish, kind and quality of sold in London, 61
— season of the costermongers, 63
— annually sold in the streets of London, gross value
of, 77— ("dry") selling in the street, 77
— fruit, and vegetables, stationary street-sellers of, 96
— street-sellers of, 61
Flower-girls (London), 134
— girls, life of, 136
— roots, shrubs, and trees, quantity sold in the
streets, 130Flowers, buyers of those sold in the streets, 130
— (cut and in pots), trees, shrubs, roots, seeds, and
branches, street-sellers of, 130— in pots, roots, street-sale of, 137
— "cut," quantity of sold in streets, 137
— trees, shrubs, table showing quantity of sold whole-
sale at markets and retail in the streets, 131Flower-girls, two orphan, 135
Fly-papers, street-sellers of, 435
Forestalling markets and Billingsgate bummarees, 67
French polish, sellers of, 427
Fried fish, sellers of, 165
— preparation of, 165
— seller, experience and customers of, 169
Fruit (green) selling in the streets, 83
— stall-keepers, 99
— and vegetable season of costermongers, 81
— and vegetables sold annually in London streets,
gross value of, 95— street-sellers of, 79
— kind and quantity of sold in the London streets, 79
— (home-grown), quantity sold in metropolitan mar-
kets, and proportion sold retail in streets, 80— foreign, 81
— "dry," 81
"Gallows" literature of the streets, 280
Game, rabbits, and poultry, sold in the streets, 121
— hawker, experience of, 124
Ginger-beer seller, experience of, 189
— sherbet, and lemonade, street-sale of, 186
Ginger-bread nuts, street-sellers of, 199
Grease-removing compositions, street-sellers of, 427
Green stuff, street-sellers of, 145
Gutta-percha heads, street-sellers of, 434
Haberdashery swag-shops, 373
Ham-sandwich seller, experience of, 177
— street-sellers of, 177
Hawkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen, 374
Hawking butcher, experience of, 176
494Hot eels and pea-soup man, experience of, 162
— green-pea seller, experience of, 180
— green-peas, street-sellers of, 180
"House of Lords," a street-sellers' defunct club, 364
Ices and ice-creams, street-sellers of, 206
Indecent (sham) street-trade, 240
Irish, causes which made them turn costermongers, 105
— lodging-houses for immigrants, 111.
— "refuse" sellers, 117
— street diet, drink, and expense of living among, 113.
— education, literature, amusements, and politics
of, 108— how they displanted the street Jews in the orange
trade, 106— houses of, 109
— history of some of the sellers, 115
— religion of, 107
— resources of as regards stock, money, sickness,
burials, &c., 114— (street), 104
Irishwoman street-seller, an, 465
Jewellery street-sellers, 346
Lace, street-sellers of, 386
— maker's appeal, 364
Lavender, street sale of, 137
Literature, street-sellers of, 306
— capital and income of, 306
London, children street-sellers of, 468
Lot sellers, 447
Low lodging-houses of London, 251, 407
— of the country, 258
— filth, dishonesty, and immorality of, 254
Lucifer matches, street-sellers of, 431
Manufactured articles, street-sellers of, 323
— capital and income of, 485
— in metal, street-sellers of, 324
Manuscript and other music, 305
Markets (the London street) on a Saturday night, 9
— on a Sunday morning, 10
May, palm, &c., street sale of, 143
Mechanic's wife, a street-seller, 464
Milk selling in St. James's-park, 191
— street sale of, 192
Miscellaneous manufactured articles, street-sellers of, 436
Muffin and crumpet selling in the streets, 202
Newspapers, books, &c., sale of at railway stations, 291
Nut selling in streets, 89
Orphan girl, life of, 483
— boy street-seller, 482
Onion selling in the streets, 93
Orange and lemon selling in the streets, 87
— and nut market, 86
Oyster selling in the streets, 75
Packman, statement of a, 379
Packmen or hawkers of soft wares, 377
Pastry and confectionary, street-sellers of, 195
Patterers, abodes, tricks, marriage, and characteristics
of the different grades of, 243— benefit society of, 242
— former and present state of, 215
— habits, opinions, morals, and religion of, 217
— (running), 221
— experience of, 222
— recent experience of, 224
— (standing), 232
— experience of, 234
Pattering class, epitome of, 309
Pea-soup and hot eels, street-sellers of, 160
Pedlar jeweller, 347
"Penny gaff," 40
Peppermint water, street sale of, 191
Periodicals, pamphlets, tracts, books, &c., street-sellers
of, 289— on the steamboats and steamboat piers, sale of, 290
Periwinkle selling in the streets, 76
Pickpocket, statement of a young, 410
Pictures in frames, street selling of, 304
Pieman, street, 195
"Pinners up," or wall song sellers, 272
Pipes, street-sellers of, 440
Plantain sellers, 158
Play-bills, street sellers of, 287
Plum "duff" or dough, street-sellers of, 197
Poets and authors, street, 278
Poison for rats, 450
Political litanies, dialogues, &c., 236
Pot-herbs and celery, 94
Potatoes (baked), street-trade in, 173
Poultry and game, street purchasers of, 123
— hawkers, statement of two, 125
— (live and dead), game, rabbits, butter, cheese, and
eggs, street-sellers of, 120— live, and game, street sale of, 126
Prostitute, statement of a, 412
Public-house hawkers of metal spoons, 344
Publishers and authors of street literature, 220
Puddings (boiled), street-seller of, 197
Rabbit-selling in the streets, 129
Razor-paste, street-sellers of, 429
Reduced gentlewoman and a reduced tradesman, as
street-sellers of stationery, 269Religious tract-sellers, 241
Rhubarb and spice, street-sellers of, 452
Rice milk, street-sellers of, 193
Rings and sovereigns for wagers, street-sellers of, 351
Roasted chestnuts and apples, 90
Roulette-boxes, street-sellers of, 449
Runaway street-boys, two, 483
"Screevers," or writers of begging letters and peti-
tions, 311Second editions, sellers of, 230
Seeds, sale of, 139
Sheeps'-trotter seller, statement of a, 171
Sheeps'-trotters, street-sellers of, 170
— preparation of, and quantity sold, 170
Shell-fish sellers in the streets, 69
Shrimp selling, 72
Single woman street-seller, a, 463
"Slang" weights and measures, 32
Small ware, street sellers of, 385
Smithfield races, 27
Snuff-boxes, street-sellers of, 440
Song sellers (long), 221
Songs, street-sellers of, 272
Spar, china ornaments, and stone fruit, street-sellers of,
370Spectacle and eye-glasses, street-sellers of, 444
Sponge, street-sellers of, 442
Sprat selling in the streets, 69
Stationery, literature, and fine arts, street-seller of, 213
— street-sellers of, 267, 306
Stationers (street), and street card sellers, 261
— experience of, 267
— capital and income of, 306
Stalls (street), character of, 99
— number of, 96
Sticks (walking), street-sellers of, 437
"Strawing," 239
Street children, amusements of, 476
— clothing of, 476
— diet of, 475
— dwelling-places of, 475
— education of, 472
— morals, religion, opinions of, 474
— propensities of, 477
Street-folk in general and costermongers in particular,
varieties of, 6Street-seller, "neglected" child, 480
Street-sellers, public meeting of, 102
Swag-barrowmen, 447
Swag-shops of the metropolis, 333
Sweet-stuff, street-sellers and customers of, 204
— street sale of, 203
Table-covers (japanned), street-sellers of, 388
Tally packmen, 380
Tea, hawking of, 455
Textile fabrics, street-sellers of, 372
Thieves, meeting of, 418
Tinware, street-sellers of, 354
— seller, life of, 355
Tobacco-boxes, street-sellers of, 440
Tools, street-sellers of, 361
Trees and shrubs, street sale of, 133
Trotting or hawking butchers, 175
Turf cutting and selling, 155
— cutter, experience and customers of, 157
Vegetables, street sale of, 91
— aristocratic sale of, 92
"Vic" gallery, 18
Wandering tribes of this country, 1
— in general, 2
Wash-leathers, street-sellers of, 443
Waste newspapers at Billingsgate, sale of, 290
Watches (children's gilt), street-sellers of, 353
Water-cress selling in Farringdon-market, 145
Water-cresses, table showing the quantity sold wholesale
at "green markets," and retail in the streets, 152— street-sellers of, 149
Water-cress girl, 151
Water-carriers, 194
Whelks (pickled), street-sellers of, 163
— purchasers of, 165
Whips, street-sellers of, 438
Widow, street-seller, a, 467
Women street-sellers, 457
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