WHISKY AND WHELKS.
AUTHOR OF "PROGRESS AND POVERTY." Whisky and whelks appear to be Mr. Hyndman's two prejudices. Be has some reason for the latter aversion. On one occasion, ho tells ue in hi* aukc biography, he and Henry Georg© were passing down Great Portland-street, " when George espied a barrow-load of whelks at the corner being sold by the costermonger who owned them. 'I say, Hyndman, quoth George, ' I like the look of thoee whelks.' 'All right,' said I, 'if you like them I'll have some cent in for you.' ' No,' was the ont>w«t, 'I'll have them liere and now.' Expostulation was useless. So George consumed his wlielks from the barrow, while I, got up in the high hat and frock-coat of non-whelk-eating-at-the-corner civilisation, stood by and saw him do it. . . . I never see a whelk-stall at a street corner to this day but I feel inclined to bolt off in another direction." For the " father of revolutionary Sociallesm in England is nothing if not respectaible, (states the London Daily Chronicle.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1912, Page 13
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