London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1

LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR. — THE STREET-FOLK.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FISH.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

OF THE STATIONARY STREET-SELLERS OF FISH, FRUIT, AND VEGETABLES.

OF THE STREET-IRISH.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF GAME, POULTRY (LIVE AND DEAD), RABBITS, BUTTER, CHEESE, AND EGGS.

OF THE SELLERS OF TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS (CUT AND IN POTS), ROOTS, SEEDS, AND BRANCHES.

STREET-SELLERS OF GREEN STUFF.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND DRINKABLES.

10.

OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND DRINKABLES.

11.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.

12.

OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.

13.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.

14.

OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS.

OF A SINGLE WOMAN, AS A STREET-SELLER.

OF A MECHANIC'S WIFE, AS A STREET-SELLER.

OF AN IRISHWOMAN, AS A STREET-SELLER.

OF A WIDOW, A STREET-SELLER.

OF THE CHILDREN STREET-SELLERS OF LONDON.

OF CHILDREN SENT OUT AS STREET-SELLERS BY THEIR PARENTS.

OF A "NEGLECTED" CHILD, A STREET-SELLER.

OF A HIRED COSTER BOY.

OF AN ORPHAN BOY, A STREET-SELLER.

OF THE LIFE OF AN ORPHAN GIRL, A STREET- SELLER.

OF TWO RUNAWAY STREET-BOYS.

15.

OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.

ERRATA.

INDEX.

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OF THE MORE PROVIDENT COSTERMONGERS.

Concerning this head, I give the statement of
a man whose information I found fully con-

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firmed: — "We are not such a degraded set as
some believe; sir, but a living doesn't tumble
into a man's mouth, now a days. A good
many of us costers rises into greengrocers and
coal-sheds, and still carries on their rounds as
costers, all the same. Why, in Lock's-fields,
I could show you twenty such, and you'd find
them very decent men, sir — very. There's one
man I know, that's risen that way, who is worth
hundreds of pounds, and keeps his horse and
cart like a gentleman. They rises to be voters,
and they all vote liberal. Some marry the better
kind of servants, — such servant-maids as
would'nt marry a rag and bottle shop, but
doesn't object to a coal shed. It's mostly
younger men that manages this. As far as I
have observed, these costers, after they has
settled and got to be housekeepers, don't turn
their backs on their old mates. They'd have a
nice life of it if they did — yes! a very nice life."

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OF THE MORE PROVIDENT COSTERMONGERS.