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LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR
A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings
OF
THOSE THAT WILL WORK THOSE THAT CANNOT WORK, AND THOSE THAT WILL NOT WORK
BY HENRY MAYHEW
THE LONDON STREET-FOLK
COMPRISING
STREET SELLERS · STREET BUYERS · STREET FINDERS STREET PERFORMERS · STREET ARTIZANS · STREET LABOURERS
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
VOLUME TWO
First edition 1851 (Volume One only and parts of Volumes Two and Three) Enlarged edition (Four volumes) 1861-62 New impression 1865
VOLUME II.
THE STREET-FOLK.
PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 STREET-SELLERS OF SECOND-HAND ARTICLES 5 STREET-SELLERS OF LIVE ANIMALS 47 STREET-SELLERS OF MINERAL PRODUCTIONS AND NATURAL CURIOSITIES 81 THE STREET-BUYERS 103 THE STREET-JEWS 115 STREET-FINDERS OR COLLECTORS 136 THE STREETS OF LONDON 181 CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS 338 CROSSING SWEEPERS 465
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE A VIEW IN PETTICOAT-LANE 36 A VIEW IN ROSEMARY-LANE 39 THE STREET DOG-SELLER 54 THE CRIPPLED STREET BIRD-SELLER 66 STREET-SELLER OF BIRDS’-NESTS 72 THE JEW OLD-CLOTHES MAN 118 THE BONE-GRUBBER 138 THE MUD-LARK 155 THE LONDON DUSTMAN 172 VIEW OF A DUST-YARD 208 THE LONDON SCAVENGER 226 STREET ORDERLIES 253 THE ABLE-BODIED PAUPER STREET-SWEEPER 262 THE RUBBISH-CARTER 289 THE LONDON SWEEP 346 ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING CLIMBING-SWEEPS 354 THE MILKMAID’S GARLAND 370 THE SWEEP’S HOME 378 THE SEWER-HUNTER 388 MODE OF CLEANSING CESSPOOLS 406 FLUSHING THE SEWERS 424 THE RAT-CATCHERS OF THE SEWERS 431 LONDON NIGHTMEN 433 THE BEARDED CROSSING-SWEEPER AT THE EXCHANGE 471 THE CROSSING-SWEEPER THAT HAS BEEN A MAID-SERVANT 479 THE IRISH CROSSING-SWEEPER 481 THE ONE-LEGGED CROSSING-SWEEPER AT CHANCERY-LANE 488 THE BOY CROSSING-SWEEPERS 494
LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR.
VOL. II.
THE STREET-FOLK. BOOK THE SECOND.