Show i TIlE THE H OLDEST STREET T PEDDLER ER OF ENGLAND I I 1 t Yes sir I claim to tu be bo tIm tho oi IOSI jt hawker In eight ht last Ive been at th tb t business for tor nigh on fifty Otly years ent Tho speaker was Way an nn elderly purveyor I of penny novelties with a 1 belt beet in th tb neighborhood ot of tho the Stock Exchange No theres thore not much chance ot rm ate I i retiring this thus chic sl o of ot tile the lie grave Profit arc aro too small and earnings too un taut tain to allow n a man to lay la much tOuch lj by b i Theres Theles no nl trade MO so uncertain u no as an ours OUtI Tho The best boat time I remember was Met king day last year Penny Penn flags sola 80 fast net list I could have havo cleared cheated cl my toy stout a II dozen times over nail uM tho Ito best of u It was wan that limit people lisle for Cur uny un change Tho Thia particular kind of ot goods gooda u a hawk hawker er or sells culls Well It depends on hll hi p t and on the Ito events of ot the tho day At A pi p i out cut theres a n arun run on all the tho flying U u I and on olin ft ci little gilt model of ot sir Tin lh Thi i 10 I I yacht but since ice the war lIr bot L n i theres been beun more patriotic nOIH sold than else cIllo Button pho 1110 I of ot generals sold sohl In anti and tho Ito rage fur tur these theBo was VIS ty by br a CL run Iun on penny medals bearing a II pf pt f trait ot of her hor late Into majesty When th tb re rewn r rwan was wan wn bail bad news hews troll from rota tho the front WA WB w n ti IIi ways put our buttons and aM such sueh m n ii away awny nl for tho the time und and filled th lr pla pIa willa a n stock of ot penny games gaines balloon t or Penny lenny novelties In hooks books anti rated sheets of ot popular songs t fl been heen going well weli and during tiia tha excitement In iii Peking Boxers heads ii In the shape shapo of ot a 11 ball sold well DIdt sea seo them thiem 7 Why Wity you hail had to press rese thu th ball baIl timid and then tho the Boxer put out his hI tongue nt at you Most hawkers are arc very or run 1111 c about the articles they train trao a aIn In If successful In n mu 1 certain line ive a kc keep p on stocking It until tho lie wont ont buy huy any moie mOIO It Is lu funny though how hos tho the sale of ot a 1 line II no dead dent Is always revived again About ten years yearn ago millions of or u 11 stuck on plus plim W vero re soul sold In 5 streets and n iv demand for or these line has i re Ie con 1 Then too tho tIm mechanical tin lids hI r p that sold oM ut tit n a penny erich each twenty yei eJI ago arc are once again lit Ii 11 favor avor with UP this th public and tho the penny ponny key loy ring of lay fifty years back Mils na M readily ns nil ever Sometimes when going In n tot for some som something thing now new half a 11 dozen of us club to toI gather othor I ami share the tho risk link for tor our cur ch I elan i of ot goodu goode cannot bo ho obtained on tho the si or return Perhaps halt half n mm Iro i of the novelty Is bought and distributed over a n good part of tho city each nun 01 1 taking aiming Petit bent In iii a thorough faro fare Homo streets we wo are forbidden al III altogether altogether together The Tho lie police wont allow ollow us II h I h street t Bests Maths Marks anti and illicIt and many others elliots and our dime n ties arc aro Increased by b the lie shopkeeper who object abject lt to hawkers standing in is trout front of their shops shells They Thoy Iho ray cay our cia take tale tho Ito eyes oyes of the tho public nuu nu from their windows antI and besides be W sv v sill many mallY penny articles that they or tot for Many of the younger men mon you see la lii lathe Inthe liilie the lie streets are only hankers for t time being until they got get regular J i Most of the women hawkers are aro wives of or out of work mil an i they sell safety matches to keep bu but butaud and aud soul together Somo Sonin of em cm arc tui plucky uns tins tinsTone Your Tone In year out I moro more than 13 12 2 Ia 10 o IS 18 POI per w wok k Of or this 1 I to pay m si i ponce pence or n II night nl ht for tor my b bId J and the lie rest goon in food Cool arid refresh mont In summer many men drink their boil bell money ami tutu sleep 81 CI In I gar square squar or on the tho Few of us 19 hawkers vor buy clothes clothe I 1 bought a n suit ault for tor over oer y years ars These togs tog Im wearing weaning now I were given to me by a n tort I Poorer hawkers often otten live In i fields or ot five 8 or six t th or er In n ti 1 room Thoy Thus Tho are men inch at nt the tho Ion ho oat ost o t ebb nearly always single men who cannot got lIot a n situation of any an kind ow owing owing ing to the lie drink or loss loan of or diameter Where do we no buy bu our goods Well sometimes through showmen as ns hwy th y yaro are aro Is 19 middlemen wIn who have a mm horse and nut trap but most men go direct to 10 thin the hawkers hawken friend Brothers Drother Is t I Mr J ib Informed the lie writer wt nia nun firm supplied nine tenths of hawkers anti and show htow showmen men with their stocks In trade I |