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THE RADISH GIRL.
“Radishes! Radishes!” trip, trip along,You queer little dumpling! with basket and song,
Somebody sure round that corner you'll spy,
Poor little thing—who'll your Radishes buy!
Among the first vegetables with which we are supplied in the Spring, are Radishes. They are carried about the streets of the city in baskets by boys and girls, who make known what they have for sale in a shrill voice, which brings the servant maids to the doors. The Radishes, red, purple, or white, as they may be, are put up in small bunches of five or six in each, and sold at from one to two cents a bunch. The supplying of this article, during a part of the Spring and Summer months, affords employment to many boys and girls, and returns considerable sums of money to the gardeners who cultivate them.
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