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INDEX.

  • Arts (fine), street-sellers of, 301; capital and income of,
    306

  • Art (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, 389

  • Bread, 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, 141

  • Cigar 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, 286

  • Conundrums, 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, 205

  • Country 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, 130

  • Flowers, 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, 131

  • Flower-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


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  • Hot 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, 269

  • Religious 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, 311

  • Second 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,
    370

  • Spectacle 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, 6

  • Street-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