A Gutter Merchant on his Calling.
"Matches, pipe-cleaners, tie-clips, and leadpencil sharpeners is wot we calls reg'ler stock, and these all goes pretty well if yer've got a decent pitch ; but yer have ter 'it on a -special line if yer wants to make a bit extry. " Them there studs as wot don't want no pushin', but tips on one side to go through the buttonhole, went very well when they fast come out, but lately I ain't done better with anything than I did with the penny sewingmachine • all made ter work,' as come out a few months ago. Them penny toys, too, wot yer blows through and the figure er Mr Gladstone B tarts choppin' down a tree, went very well when they was a novelty. "I did a good thing, too, last year in Cheapside with them little penny terbacker pouches 'oldin' just about enuf for one cigarette, an' it was me as christened 'em ♦ The Strong Man's Terbacker Pouch/ though the others was quick enuf in catchin' up the name.
" Ah ! that's the spoilin' of the whole game. There's too many of us at it, and any poor jokar down on 'is luck reckons he's clever enuf to sell penn'orths in the gutter ; though, mind yer, there's room for a man's being smart at his job even there.'*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2082, 18 January 1894, Page 49
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222A Gutter Merchant on his Calling. Otago Witness, Issue 2082, 18 January 1894, Page 49
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