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London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1

  
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[dedication]
  
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.
  
OF THE FORMER AND PRESENT STREET- PATTERERS.
  
OF THE HABITS, OPINIONS, MORALS, AND RELIGION OF PATTERERS GENERALLY.
  
OF THE PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS OF STREET-LITERATURE.
  
OF LONG SONG-SELLERS.
  
OF RUNNING PATTERERS.
  
EXPERIENCE OF A RUNNING PATTERER.
  
OF THE RECENT EXPERIENCE OF A RUNNING PATTERER.
  
OF THE CHAUNTERS.
  
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A CHAUNTER.
  
OF THE DEATH AND FIRE HUNTERS.
  
OF THE SELLERS OF SECOND EDITIONS.
  
OF THE STANDING PATTERERS.
  
EXPERIENCE OF A STANDING PATTERER.
  
OF POLITICAL LITANIES, DIALOGUES, ETC.
  
OF " COCKS," ETC.
  
OF " STRAWING."
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OF THE SHAM INDECENT STREET-TRADE.
  
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OF RELIGIOUS TRACT SELLERS.
  
OF A BENEFIT SOCIETY OF PATTERERS.
  
OF THE ABODES, TRICKS, MARRIAGE, CHARACTER, AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DIFFERENT GRADES OF PATTERERS.
  
OF THE LOW LODGING-HOUSES OF LONDON.
  
OF THE FILTH, DISHONESTY, AND IMMORALITY OF LOW LODGING-HOUSES.
  
OF THE CHILDREN IN LOW LODGING- HOUSES.
  
OF THE LOW LODGING-HOUSES THROUGH- OUT THE COUNTRY.
  
OF THE STREET STATIONERS, AND THE STREET CARD-SELLERS.
  
OF THE SELLER OF THE PENNY SHORT-HAND CARDS.
  
OF THE SELLERS OF RACE CARDS AND LISTS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF GELATINE, OF ENGRAVED, AND OF PLAYING CARDS, &c.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY.
  
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A STREET- STATIONER.
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OF A "REDUCED" GENTLEWOMAN, AND A "REDUCED" TRADESMAN, AS STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY.
  
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OF THE STREET-SALE OF MEMORANDUM- BOOKS AND ALMANACKS.
  
OF THE STREET-SALE OF POCKET-BOOKS AND DIARIES.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF SONGS.
  
OF THE STREET "PINNERS-UP," OR WALL SONG-SELLERS.
  
OF ANCIENT AND MODERN STREET BALLAD MINSTRELSY.
  
OF STREET "BALLADS ON A SUBJECT."
  
OF THE STREET POETS AND AUTHORS.
  
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A STREET AUTHOR, OR POET.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF BROAD-SHEETS.
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OF THE "GALLOWS" LITERATURE OF THE STREETS.
  
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF CONUNDRUMS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF COMIC EXHIBITIONS, MAGICAL DELUSIONS, &c.
  
OF THE STREET SELLERS OF PLAY-BILLS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF PERIODICALS, PAMPHLETS, TRACTS, BOOKS, ETC.
  
OF THE STREET-SALE OF BACK NUMBERS.
  
OF THE SALE OF WASTE NEWSPAPERS AT BILLINGSGATE.
  
OF THE SALE OF PERIODICALS ON THE STEAM- BOATS AND STEAM-BOAT PIERS.
  
OF THE SALE OF NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, &c., AT THE RAILWAY STATIONS.
  
OF THE STREET BOOKSELLERS.
  
OF THE CHARACTER OF BOOKS OF THE STREET-SALE.
  
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A STREET BOOK- SELLER.
  
OF STREET BOOK-AUCTIONEERS.
  
OF THE STREET-SALE OF SONG-BOOKS, AND OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF ACCOUNT-BOOKS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF GUIDE-BOOKS, &c.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FINE ARTS.
  
OF STREET ART.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF ENGRAVINGS, ETC., IN UMBRELLAS, ETC.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF PICTURES IN FRAMES.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUSCRIPT AND OTHER MUSIC.
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OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.
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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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