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How Some Men Farn a Livelihood.

The kerb- tone lottery — a penny a chance for a key-ring in a small envelope, and perhaps a threepenny piece tFrrown in — has now. vr>ry properly, been almost entirely banished from our btree-^. A few men, however, continue to employ it. particularly at Christmas time, in the wpy here indicated. They stand 111 a line with other gutter merchant*, having, as you see. tho usual tray of studs, matches, etc., hanging by a cord round the

neck. Under then overcoats they wear an apron of American cloth, to which tLe "chances" or en\elone= are held by strips of tape. The picture shows the apron held out for the patron to "take hib choice." To the left uo se*" the apron — dotted linos — dropped and covered by the overcoat. Danger 1? nigh, and ""only a penny to win thrippence and a keyring'" instantly gives place to the s-afer ciy of "any collar stud* or mnberellar rings."'

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Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 71

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How Some Men Farn a Livelihood. Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 71

How Some Men Farn a Livelihood. Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 71