“THE BAKER'S DOZEN"
Bakers did not always have rounds.They were not even , allowed to have shops, writes “ Philemon,” in the London ‘ Star.’ They were forbidden by; law to sell bread in their houses, or in front of their houses; they had to takait to market; and, in London, each particular baker was licensed to sell bread only in a particular market. • The inconvenience of this among the betteroff people (the poor have always had to lump it) led to the institution of rounds. But it was not the baker’s boy who made them. The rounds were made by woman “ hucksters ” (as they, were called), who also had to have at license. These women bought the loaves from the baker and took them rounds It was a poor trade; but they made a' little money out of it because the bal ir wm_ V privileged ,to give them 13, loaves and count them as ;12--hence “ at baker’s i * w&sgmt
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Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 2
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158“THE BAKER'S DOZEN" Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 2
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