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Part 130

PAGE 5, line 45, second column, _for_ 9,350 _read_ 8,850. 6, line 39, first column, _for_ 34,209 _read_ 28,506. line 43, _for_ between thirty and forty thousand _read_ between twenty-five and thirty thousand. 11, number of markets Surrey side, _for_ 664 _read_ 764. number of markets Middlesex side, _for_ 3,137 _read_ 3,147. first line, second column, _for_ 3801 _read_ 3,911, and _for_ 102 _read_ 105. 26, line 50, first column, _for_ 75_l._ _read_ 67_l._ 10_s._; line 53, _for_ 525_l._ _read_ 405_l._; line 57, _for_ 6,300_l._ _read_ 4,860_l._ 30, line 25, _for_ 2_l._ each _read_ 2_l._ 56, line 27, _for_ 24,135_l._ _read_ 23,775_l._ line 28, _for_ upwards _read_ very nearly. line 50, _for_ 14,000_l._ _read_ 9,750_l._ line 54, _for_ 6,500_l._ _read_ 130_l._ line 58, _for_ 22,550_l._ _read_ 17,400_l._ line 36, second column, _for_ between 1,250,000_l._ and 1,500,000_l._ _read_ 1,040,000_l._ 63, line 13, _for_ 5,040,000 lbs. _read_ 4,940,000 lbs. line 27, _for_ 147,000,000 _read_ 49,750,000. line 36, _for_ 24,300 _read_ 22,067. line 38, _for_ 32,400 _read_ 33,696. 69, line 38, _for_ 263,281,000 _read_ 263,261,000. 80, line 11, _for_ 16,450 _read_ 37,650. line 14, _for_ 171,000 _read_ 175,000. line 15, _for_ 108,000 _read_ 112,000. line 16, _for_ 24,000 _read_ 26,800. line 28, _for_ 16,817,000 _read_ 18,017,000. line 31, _for_ 221,100 _read_ 221,200. line 39, _for_ 94,000 _read_ 104,400. line 41, _for_ 32,900 _read_ 37,900. 95, line 37, first column, _for_ 6,270 _read_ 6,240. line 43, first column, _for_ 1,960 _read_ 1,950. line 48, first column, _for_ 15,300 _read_ 15,200. line 16, second column, _for_ 333,420 _read_ 332,400. 96, line 3, first column, _for_ 333,420 _read_ 332,400. line 5, first column, _for_ 292,000 _read_ 292,240. line 6, first column, _for_ 626,420 _read_ 625,640. line 6, second column, _for_ 2,087,270 _read_ 2,086,490. 122, table, middle column, line 12, _for_ 524,000 _read_ 525,000. table, middle column, line 21, _for_ 524,000 _read_ 525,000. table, middle column, line 22, _for_ 1,464,000 _read_ 1,465,000. 130, line 4, second column, _for_ 160 _read_ 166. 139, line 12, second column, _for_ 123,360 _read_ 129,360. 142, line 46, second column, _for_ 575 _read_ 525. 144, line 7, first column, _for_ 150,000 _read_ 150,768. line 33, first column, _for_ 50 _read_ 60. last line, first column, _for_ 2,867_l._ _read_ 2,877_l._ line 9, second column, _for_ 1,183_l._ _read_ 1,883_l._ line 11, second column, _for_ 2,774_l._ _read_ 2,474_l._ line 32, second column, _for_ 210 _read_ 160. line 33, second column, _for_ 1,667_l._ _read_ 1,617_l._ 158, line 17, second column, _for_ 13,949_l._ _read_ 13,950_l._ line 20, second column, _for_ 520 _read_ 572. line 21, second column, _for_ 28,504 _read_ 28,557. 163, line 4, second column, _for_ 19,448 _read_ 21,910. line 24, second column, _for_ 12,102 _read_ 14,586. 171, line 13, second column, _for_ 3,031_l._ 11_s._ _read_ 3,033_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ 195, line 39, first column, _for_ 1,452_l._ _read_ 780_l._ 197, line 13, first column, _for_ 3,000_l._ _read_ 1,040_l._ 203, line 12, first column, _for_ 300 _read_ 100. 218, line 61, first column, _for_ because _read_ although. line 63, first column, _for_ no _read_ an utter want of. line 51, second column, _for_ flummut _read_ flummuxed. 325, line 48, second column, _for_ 780_l._ _read_ 3,900_l._ 329, line 43, second column, _for_ 3,500 _read_ 13,500. line 45, second column, _for_ 700 _read_ 2,700. line 46, second column, _for_ 25,000 _read_ 20,700. line 47, second column, _for_ 250 _read_ 207. 340, line 57, second column, _for_ vicapicated _read_ incapacitated. 347, line 41, second column, _for_ 23,410 _read_ 23,400. 370, line 15, second column, _for_ store _read_ stone. 377, In the table of Hawkers and Pedlars for England, Wales, and Scotland, the Total for Wales is placed below the Islands in the British Seas, but should stand above it. 388, line 43, first column, _for_ 2,600 _read_ 2,730. 392, last line, second column, _for_ 384,400 _read_ 1,872,000. 393, line 2, first column, _for_ 3,120 _read_ 3,900. line 5, first column, _for_ 4,680 _read_ 3,900. 427, line 9, first column, _for_ 1,250 _read_ 1,300. 440, line 9, first column, _for_ 2,340 _read_ 1,950. 441, line 55, first column, _for_ 692 _read_ 702. 443, line 39, second column, _for_ 1,850 _read_ 1,950. 449, line 58, first column, _for_ 1,190 _read_ 1,690.

INDEX.

Arts (fine), street-sellers of, 301; capital and income of, 306

Art (street), 301

Author and poet (street), experience of, 279

Ballad minstrelsy in the streets, ancient and modern, 273

Ballads (street) on a subject, 275

Back numbers, street sale of, 289

Beggar street-sellers, 363

Beggar street-seller, statement of a, 414

Beetle wafers, street-sellers of, 435

Billingsgate, description of, 64

Billingsgate market, quantity and weight of fish sold in, 63

Blacking and black-lead, street-sellers of, 425

Blind street-seller of boot-laces, 395

Blind female street-seller of small wares, 393

Blind street seller of tailors’ needles, 340

Blind boot-lace seller, life of, 405

Book auctioneers (street), 296

Booksellers (street), 292

Booksellers (street), experience of, 294

Books sold in the streets, character of, 293

Books (memorandum) and almanacks, street sale of, 271

Books (pocket) and diaries, street sale of, 271

Books (song), street sale of, 298

Books (children’s), street sale of, 298

Books (guide), street sale of, 299

Books (account), street sale of, 299

Boot and stay-laces, street-sellers of, 391

Boys of the costermongers and their “bunse,” 33

Braces, belts, hose, trowser-straps, and waistcoats, street-sellers of, 389

Bread, street sale of, 178

Broadsheets, street sellers of, 280

Buns (hot-cross and Chelsea), street-sellers of, 201

Butter, cheese, and eggs, 129

Cake, street-sellers of, 199

Cakes and tarts, street-sellers of, 198

Cards (engraved), street-sellers of, 266

Cards (gelatine), street-sellers of, 266

Cards (playing), street-sellers of, 266

Cards (race) and lists of races, street-sellers of, 265

Cards (short-hand), street-sellers of, 261

Card-counters, medals, &c., street-sellers of, 349

Cats’ and dogs’-meat, street-sellers of, 181

Cement for glass and china, street-sellers of, 429

Chaunters, experience of, 226

Cheap John, or street hansellers, 326

Cheap John, life of a, 336

Chemical articles of manufacture, street-sellers of, 425

Chickweed and groundsell, street-sellers of, 153

Children in low lodging-houses, 257

Children, causes which influence them to take to a street career, 472

Children as street-sellers sent out by parents, 479

Christmasing, laurel, ivy, holly, and mistletoe, street-sellers of, 141

Cigar lights or fuzees, street-sellers of, 433

Cigars, street-sellers of, 441

“Cocks,” &c., 238

Coffee-stall keepers, 183

Comic exhibitions, magical delusions, &c., street-sellers of, 286

Conundrums, street-sellers of, 285

Conveyances of costermongers and other street-folk, 26

Corn-salve, street-sellers of, 428

Costermongers, ancient calling of, 7

Costermongers and other street-folk, number of, 4

Costermongers, capital of, 29

Costermongers, capital and income of, 55

Costermongers, children, education of, 24

Costermongers, cries, rounds, and days of, 52

Costermongers, diet and drink of, 52

Costermongers, donkeys of, 29

Costermongers, dress of, 51

Costermongers, earnings of, 54

Costermongers, education of, 35

Costermongers, gambling of, 16

Costermongers, habits and amusements of, 11

Costermongers, homes of, 47

Costermongers, honesty of, 26

Costermongers, juvenile trading of, 35

Costermongers, language of, 23

Costermongers, literature of, 25

Costermongers, markets and trade rights of, 58

Costermongers, marriage and concubinage of, 20

Costermongers, nicknames of, 24

Costermongers, obsolete cries of, 8

Costermongers, politics of, 20

Costermongers, providence and improvidence of, 56

Costermongers, raffles of, 58

Costermongers, religion of, 21

Costermongers, removal from streets of, 59

Costermongers, tricks of, 61

Costermongers, uneducated state of, 22

Costermongering mechanics, 7

Costermongers and thieves, 46

Costermongers and thieves in bad weather and during the cholera, 57

Costermongers and thieves on their country rounds, 53

Costermongers and thieves, the more provident, 46

Costermongers and thieves, economically considered, 8

Coster boy, hired, 481

Coster girls, 43

Coster girl, life of a, 45

Coster lad, life of a, 39

Coster lad, education of, 35

Cough-drops and medical confectionery, street-sellers of, 205

Country lodging-houses, 423

Crackers and detonating balls, street-sellers of, 430

Crippled seller of nutmeg-graters, 329

Crockery and glass-ware, street-sellers of, 365

Covent-garden market, 81

Curds and whey, street sale of, 192

Cutlery, street-sellers of, 338

Death and fire hunters, 228

Dog collars, street-sellers of, 358

Dog-collar seller, life of a, 359

Dolls, street-sellers of, 445

Drinkables, street sale of, 183

Duffers, or hawkers of pretended smuggled goods, 383

Eatables and drinkables, street-sellers of, 258

Eatables and drinkables, capital and income of, street-sellers of, 208

Eatables and drinkables, sums spent yearly upon, 212

Elder wine (hot), street-sellers of, 189

Engravings in umbrellas, street-sellers of, 362

Female street-sellers, localities in which they reside, 461

Female street-sellers, education, state of, 462

Female street-sellers, diet of, 462

Fish, kind and quality of sold in London, 61

Fish season of the costermongers, 63

Fish, annually sold in the streets of London, gross value of, 77

Fish (“dry”) selling in the street, 77

Fish, fruit, and vegetables, stationary street-sellers of, 96

Fish, street-sellers of, 61

Flower-girls (London), 134

Flower-girls, life of, 136

Flower-girls, two orphan, 135

Flower roots, shrubs, and trees, quantity sold in the streets, 130

Flowers, buyers of those sold in the streets, 130

Flowers (cut and in pots), trees, shrubs, roots, seeds, and branches, street-sellers of, 130

Flowers in pots, roots, street-sale of, 137

Flowers, “cut,” quantity of sold in streets, 137

Flowers, trees, shrubs, table showing quantity of sold wholesale at markets and retail in the streets, 131

Fly-papers, street-sellers of, 435

Forestalling markets and Billingsgate bummarees, 67

French polish, sellers of, 427

Fried fish, sellers of, 165

Fried fish, preparation of, 165

Fried fish seller, experience and customers of, 169

Fruit (green) selling in the streets, 83

Fruit stall-keepers, 99

Fruit and vegetable season of costermongers, 81

Fruit and vegetables sold annually in London streets, gross value of, 95

Fruit, street-sellers of, 79

Fruit, kind and quantity of sold in the London streets, 79

Fruit (home-grown), quantity sold in metropolitan markets, and proportion sold retail in streets, 80

Fruit, foreign, 81

Fruit, “dry,” 81

“Gallows” literature of the streets, 280

Game, rabbits, and poultry, sold in the streets, 121

Game hawker, experience of, 124

Ginger-beer seller, experience of, 189

Ginger-beer, sherbet, and lemonade, street-sale of, 186

Ginger-bread nuts, street-sellers of, 199

Grease-removing compositions, street-sellers of, 427

Green stuff, street-sellers of, 145

Gutta-percha heads, street-sellers of, 434

Haberdashery swag-shops, 373

Ham-sandwich seller, experience of, 177

Ham-sandwich, street-sellers of, 177

Hawkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen, 374

Hawking butcher, experience of, 176

Hot eels and pea-soup man, experience of, 162

Hot eels and green-pea seller, experience of, 180

Hot eels and green-peas, street-sellers of, 180

“House of Lords,” a street-sellers’ defunct club, 364

Ices and ice-creams, street-sellers of, 206

Indecent (sham) street-trade, 240

Irish, causes which made them turn costermongers, 105

Irish, lodging-houses for immigrants, 111

Irish “refuse” sellers, 117

Irish, street diet, drink, and expense of living among, 113

Irish, education, literature, amusements, and politics of, 108

Irish, how they displanted the street Jews in the orange trade, 106

Irish, houses of, 109

Irish, history of some of the sellers, 115

Irish, religion of, 107

Irish, resources of as regards stock, money, sickness, burials, &c., 114

Irish, (street), 104

Irishwoman street-seller, an, 465

Jewellery street-sellers, 346

Lace, street-sellers of, 386

Lace-maker’s appeal, 364

Lavender, street sale of, 137

Literature, street-sellers of, 306

Literature, street-sellers of, capital and income of, 306

London, children street-sellers of, 468

Lot sellers, 447

Low lodging-houses of London, 251, 407

Low lodging-houses of the country, 258

Low lodging-houses, filth, dishonesty, and immorality of, 254

Lucifer matches, street-sellers of, 431

Manufactured articles, street-sellers of, 323

Manufactured articles, capital and income of, 485

Manufactured articles in metal, street-sellers of, 324

Manuscript and other music, 305

Markets (the London street) on a Saturday night, 9

Markets (the London street) on a Sunday morning, 10

May, palm, &c., street sale of, 143

Mechanic’s wife, a street-seller, 464

Milk selling in St. James’s-park, 191

Milk, street sale of, 192

Miscellaneous manufactured articles, street-sellers of, 436

Muffin and crumpet selling in the streets, 202

Newspapers, books, &c., sale of at railway stations, 291

Nut selling in streets, 89

Orphan girl, life of, 483

Orphan boy street-seller, 482

Onion selling in the streets, 93

Orange and lemon selling in the streets, 87

Orange and nut market, 86

Oyster selling in the streets, 75

Packman, statement of a, 379

Packmen or hawkers of soft wares, 377

Pastry and confectionary, street-sellers of, 195

Patterers, abodes, tricks, marriage, and characteristics of the different grades of, 243

Patterers, benefit society of, 242

Patterers, former and present state of, 215

Patterers, habits, opinions, morals, and religion of, 217

Patterers (running), 221

Patterers (running), experience of, 222

Patterers (running), recent experience of, 224

Patterers (standing), 232

Patterers (standing), experience of, 234

Pattering class, epitome of, 309

Pea-soup and hot eels, street-sellers of, 160

Pedlar jeweller, 347

“Penny gaff,” 40

Peppermint water, street sale of, 191

Periodicals, pamphlets, tracts, books, &c., street-sellers of, 289

Periodicals on the steamboats and steamboat piers, sale of, 290

Periwinkle selling in the streets, 76

Pickpocket, statement of a young, 410

Pictures in frames, street selling of, 304

Pieman, street, 195

“Pinners up,” or wall song sellers, 272

Pipes, street-sellers of, 440

Plantain sellers, 158

Play-bills, street sellers of, 287

Plum “duff” or dough, street-sellers of, 197

Poets and authors, street, 278

Poison for rats, 450

Political litanies, dialogues, &c., 236

Pot-herbs and celery, 94

Potatoes (baked), street-trade in, 173

Poultry and game, street purchasers of, 123

Poultry hawkers, statement of two, 125

Poultry (live and dead), game, rabbits, butter, cheese, and eggs, street-sellers of, 120

Poultry, live, and game, street sale of, 126

Prostitute, statement of a, 412

Public-house hawkers of metal spoons, 344

Publishers and authors of street literature, 220

Puddings (boiled), street-seller of, 197

Rabbit-selling in the streets, 129

Razor-paste, street-sellers of, 429

Reduced gentlewoman and a reduced tradesman, as street-sellers of stationery, 269

Religious tract-sellers, 241

Rhubarb and spice, street-sellers of, 452

Rice milk, street-sellers of, 193

Rings and sovereigns for wagers, street-sellers of, 351

Roasted chestnuts and apples, 90

Roulette-boxes, street-sellers of, 449

Runaway street-boys, two, 483

“Screevers,” or writers of begging letters and petitions, 311

Second editions, sellers of, 230

Seeds, sale of, 139

Sheeps’-trotter seller, statement of a, 171

Sheeps’-trotters, street-sellers of, 170

Sheeps’-trotters, preparation of, and quantity sold, 170

Shell-fish sellers in the streets, 69

Shrimp selling, 72

Single woman street-seller, a, 463

“Slang” weights and measures, 32

Small ware, street sellers of, 385

Smithfield races, 27

Snuff-boxes, street-sellers of, 440

Song sellers (long), 221

Songs, street-sellers of, 272

Spar, china ornaments, and stone fruit, street-sellers of, 370

Spectacle and eye-glasses, street-sellers of, 444

Sponge, street-sellers of, 442

Sprat selling in the streets, 69

Stationery, literature, and fine arts, street-seller of, 213

Stationery, street-sellers of, 267, 306

Stationers (street), and street card sellers, 261

Stationers (street), experience of, 267

Stationers (street), capital and income of, 306

Stalls (street), character of, 99

Stalls (street), number of, 96

Sticks (walking), street-sellers of, 437

“Strawing,” 239

Street children, amusements of, 476

Street children, clothing of, 476

Street children, diet of, 475

Street children, dwelling-places of, 475

Street children, education of, 472

Street children, morals, religion, opinions of, 474

Street children, propensities of, 477

Street-folk in general and costermongers in particular, varieties of, 6

Street-seller, “neglected” child, 480

Street-sellers, public meeting of, 102

Swag-barrowmen, 447

Swag-shops of the metropolis, 333

Sweet-stuff, street-sellers and customers of, 204

Sweet-stuff, street sale of, 203

Table-covers (japanned), street-sellers of, 388

Tally packmen, 380

Tea, hawking of, 455

Textile fabrics, street-sellers of, 372

Thieves, meeting of, 418

Tinware, street-sellers of, 354

Tinware, seller, life of, 355

Tobacco-boxes, street-sellers of, 440

Tools, street-sellers of, 361

Trees and shrubs, street sale of, 133

Trotting or hawking butchers, 175

Turf cutting and selling, 155

Turf cutter, experience and customers of, 157

Vegetables, street sale of, 91

Vegetables, aristocratic sale of, 92

“Vic” gallery, 18

Wandering tribes of this country, 2

Wandering tribes in general, 1

Wash-leathers, street-sellers of, 443

Waste newspapers at Billingsgate, sale of, 290

Watches (children’s gilt), street-sellers of, 353

Water-carriers, 194

Water-cress selling in Farringdon-market, 145

Water-cresses, table showing the quantity sold wholesale at “green markets,” and retail in the streets, 152

Water-cresses, street-sellers of, 149

Water-cress girl, 151

Whelks (pickled), street-sellers of, 163

Whelks (pickled), purchasers of, 165

Whips, street-sellers of, 438

Widow, street-seller, a, 467

Women street-sellers, 457

Transcriber's Note

Transcribed from the 1967 reprinting of the 1865 edition.

Errata printed before the Index have been incorporated into the text.

The following additional apparent errors have been corrected:

p. i "466" changed to "468"

p. ii "Potatoe" changed to "Potato"

p. 2 "Srange" changed to "Strange"

p. 6 "the the metropolis" changed to "the metropolis"

p. 17 "among the the" changed to "among the"

p. 24 "singularly" changed to "singularity"

p. 24 "dirtywomen" changed to "dirty women"

p. 25 "them.’”" changed to "them.”"

p. 25 "read" changed to "‘read"

p. 26 "‘Noblesse!’" changed to "‘Noblesse!"

p. 27 "ounce" changed to "ounce."

p. 28 "other n" changed to "other on"

p. 44 "life" changed to "life."

p. 47 "drawing-room")" changed to "drawing-room”"

p. 54 "buy" changed to "buy."

p. 54 "round," changed to "round."

p. 55 "cent" changed to "cent."

p. 56 "cent" changed to "cent."

p. 64 "marke opens" changed to "market opens"

p. 68 "“My customers" changed to "My customers"

p. 71 "fool" changed to "fool."

p. 71 "acccounts" changed to "accounts"

p. 72 "them. to" changed to "them to"

p. 79 "thoroughfares," changed to "thoroughfares."

p. 80 "junks," changed to "junks"

p. 80 (note) "multiciplicity" changed to "multiplicity"

p. 81 "the the streets" changed to "the streets"

p. 85 "cherry-stones.”" changed to "cherry-stones.’”"

p. 85 "Soldiers" changed to "Soldiers,"

p. 88 "however." changed to "however,"

p. 91 "general dealer.”" changed to "“general dealer.”"

p. 93 "nothing" changed to "nothing."

p. 96 "total:" changed to "total."

p. 99 "potatoe" changed to "potato"

p. 100 "continued to" changed to "continued, to"

p. 103 "the moral" changed to "the "moral"

p. 103 "a "street" changed to "a street"

p. 106 "priest.)" We" changed to "priest.) "We"

p. 108 "Iv’e" changed to "I’ve"

p. 108 "of she" changed to "of the"

p. 110 "proferring" changed to "proffering"

p. 112 "Jan" changed to "Jan."

p. 118 "cent" changed to "cent."

p. 122 "in ihe" changed to "in the"

p. 122 "Londen" changed to "London"

p. 122 "1s." changed to "1_s._"

p. 131 " One sixth" changed to " One-sixth"

p. 132 "backwarks" changed to "backwards"

p. 137 "cent" changed to "cent."

p. 144 "Cut Fowers" changed to "Cut Flowers"

p. 152 "Receipts" changed to "Receipts."

p. 158 "he shops" changed to "the shops"

p. 158 "660;000" changed to "660,000"

p. 158 "were, more" changed to "were more"

p. 160 "mnsical" changed to "musical"

p. 165 "give." changed to "give.”"

p. 170 "beautiful’" changed to "beautiful.’"

p. 174 "money." changed to "money,"

p. 175 "trade as," changed to "trade, as"

p. 176 "6_d._”" changed to "6_d._’”"

p. 176 "tflat" changed to "flat"

p. 176 "Giblets’" changed to "‘Giblets’"

p. 178 "comfort" changed to "comfort."

p. 188 "‘_I_" changed to "“_I_"

p. 188 "ginger beer" changed to "ginger-beer"

p. 192 "5_s_" changed to "5_s._"

p. 194 "1_s._." changed to "1_s._"

p. 195 "One" changed to "“One"

p. 203 "sarcely" changed to "scarcely"

p. 204 "possesed" changed to "possessed"

p. 204 "everything," changed to "everything,’"

p. 206 "13_s_" changed to "13_s._"

p. 206 "splntter" changed to "splutter"

p. 207 (note) "powerful.’" changed to "powerful.”"

p. 214 "apochryphal" changed to "apocryphal"

p. 216 "maketh.”" changed to "maketh.’"

p. 216 "offer.”" changed to "offer."

p. 217 "shilling" changed to "shilling."

p. 221 "The gay" changed to "‘The gay"

p. 226 "most" changed to "most."

p. 228 "“Haynau." changed to "“Haynau.”"

p. 229 "fellows," changed to "fellows."

p. 229 "last." changed to "last.’"

p. 230 "“I was" changed to "I was"

p. 233 "ascertaind" changed to "ascertained"

p. 236 "of of" changed to "of"

p. 237 "Queed" changed to "Queen"

p. 237 "to to" changed to "to"

p. 237 "’em!”" changed to "’em!’"

p. 238 "know nof" changed to "known of"

p. 247 "&c.." changed to "&c.,"

p. 248 "life.’”" changed to "life."’"

p. 248 "past,’" changed to "past,"

p. 248 "scran" changed to "scran’"

p. 250 "_a_ foreigner" changed to "a foreigner"

p. 258 "unprincipled." changed to "unprincipled.”"

p. 258 "backer’)" changed to "backer’"

p. 262 "guage" changed to "gauge"

p. 265 "town," changed to "town."

p. 266 "earnig" changed to "earning"

p. 268 "or them" changed to "for them"

p. 275 "Gramachree.”" changed to "“Gramachree.”"

p. 276 "‘Lummy" changed to "‘Lummy’"

p. 277 "born" changed to "borne"

p. 277 "him." changed to "him.”"

p. 281 "conerned" changed to "concerned"

p. 282 "by brother" changed to "my brother"

p. 283 "while" changed to "which"

p. 283 "which" changed to "while"

p. 284 "death.”" changed to "death.’”"

p. 287 "‘Procession" changed to "“Procession"

p. 287 "ridiculously, small" changed to "ridiculously small,"

p. 288 "familar" changed to "familiar"

p. 293 "Rasellas" changed to "Rasselas"

p. 293 "‘Tom Jones," changed to "‘Tom Jones,’"

p. 294 "Companion" changed to "Companion,"

p. 299 "stastioner" changed to "stationer"

p. 308 "&c." changed to "&c.)"

p. 309 "Chidren’s" changed to "Children’s"

p. 309 "CandleShades" changed to "Candle Shades"

p. 312 "‘GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.’" changed to "‘GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."

p. 315 "Physician" changed to "Physician’"

p. 315 "_good weight_," changed to "_good weight_."

p. 316 "expected" changed to "expected."

p. 330 "foot" changed to "foot."

p. 330 "lipe" changed to "lip"

p. 339 " else," changed to " else,’"

p. 340 "can’t get" changed to "can get"

p. 349 "them" changed to "them)"

p. 350 "tolerably" changed to "tolerable"

p. 355 "6_d._" changed to "6_d_"

p. 356 "Charing cross" changed to "Charing-cross"

p. 359 "tho,’" changed to "tho’,"

p. 364 "patry" changed to "party"

p. 364 "Nottingham.”" changed to "Nottingham.’"

p. 364 "‘unworkmanlike" changed to "‘unworkmanlike’"

p. 376 "many has" changed to "many as"

p. 377 "Blanff" changed to "Banff"

p. 378 "profit;" changed to "profit;’"

p. 381 "“but" changed to "but"

p. 384 "taxed’" changed to "taxed"

p. 389 "to to" changed to "to"

p. 391 "waiscoat" changed to "waistcoat"

p. 392 "drag, on" changed to "drag on"

p. 399 "of me," changed to "of me."

p. 400 "I think" changed to "“I think"

p. 402 "blind?”" changed to "blind?’"

p. 415 "out-and out" changed to "out-and-out"

p. 418 "cards" changed to "_cards_"

p. 418 "‘cant" changed to "‘cant’"

p. 424 "the’re" changed to "they’re"

p. 426 "DAY AND MARTIN”" changed to "“DAY AND MARTIN”"

p. 430 "Street-Seller" changed to "Street-Sellers"

p. 431 "I saw" changed to "“I saw"

p. 433 "offers,”" changed to "offers,"

p. 433 "sir?" changed to "sir?”"

p. 435 "gutta percha" changed to "gutta-percha"

p. 435 "invividual" changed to "individual"

p. 436 "1/2_d_" changed to "1/2_d._"

p. 436 "highter" changed to "higher"

p. 437 "neigbourhood" changed to "neighbourhood"

p. 438 "15_s._" changed to " 15_s._”"

p. 443 "empted" changed to "emptied"

p. 444 "that it" changed to "than it"

p. 450 "warmint;" changed to "warmint."

p. 456 "2_s_" changed to "2_s._"

p. 464 "of of us" changed to "of us"

p. 467 "there there was" changed to "there was"

p. 473 "hog;”" changed to "“hog;”"

p. 490 "amount," changed to "amount."

p. 491 "5,25" changed to "525"

p. 491 "18,017,000" changed to "18,017,000."

p. 493 "parents" changed to "parents,"

p. 494 "111." changed to "111"

p. 494 "clothing of." changed to "clothing of."

p. 494 "country, 1" changed to "country, 2"

p. 494 "general, 2" changed to "general, 1"

The index entries for "Flower-girls, two orphan," and "Water-carriers" were misplaced and have been moved.

Inconsistent or archaic spelling, capitalisation and punctuation have otherwise been kept as printed.

The letter beginning "MY DEAREST VICTORIA" (on p. 241) was printed in a form of mirror writing which is not here reproduced. It contains several spelling or typographical errors which have not been corrected.