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- Buy my fine Myrtles and Roses
- Pots and Kettles to mend
- Young lambs to sell
- "Buy a fine Singing Bird?"
- Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin Lavender
- Fine Writeing Ink
- Flowers, penny a bunch
- Three Rows a Penny pins
- Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel
- Fine Oysters
- Troope every one
- Milk below, Maids
- Sixpence a pound, Fair Cherryes
- Buy a doll, Miss
- Past one c'clock, an' a fine morning
- Songs, penny a sheet
- Buy the fair ballads I have in my pack
- I love a ballad in print
- Fresh Cabbidge
- Fresh and sweet
- Antique Ballads
- New Laid Eggs
- Stinking Fish
- Knives and Scissors to Grind
- Letters for post
- Cat's and Dog's Meat
- Dust, O
- O' clo
- Ow-oo
- Sw-e-e-p
- Great News
- Wat d'yer call that
- Cabbages O Turnips
- Hot Spice Gingerbread
- Knives to Grind
- Old Cloths
- Buy a Live Goose
- Sand 'O
- Cherries, O ripe cherries, O
- Fine Strawberries
- Chairs to mend
- Sweet Lavender
- All a blowin
- Any Earthen Ware, buy a jug or a tea pot
- Fresh Oysters, penny a lot
- Buy my sweet Roses
- Ere's yer toys for girls an boys
- Fine Large Cucumbers
- Curds and Whey
- Ripe Cherries
- Tiddy Diddy Doll
- Large silver eels
- The Push-cart Man
- The Huckster
Aside from the show itself, which is always interesting, there is the pleasant, happy-go-lucky spirit that always pervades great crowds bent on an evening’s fun. The peanut and lemonade venders ply their calling briskly, and come in for the usual share of “guying” that such merchants always excite. In hot weather the out-door spectacles detract from the attendance at the theatres, people preferring to secure their entertainment in the open air if possible. - Bread Seller in the streets of Cairo
Bread Seller in the streets of Cairo - A Man selling Betel
The practice of smoking tobacco is not more common, at least in the southern provinces of China, than that of chewing the areca nut, mixed with chunam, or lime made of shells, and wrapped up in a leaf of the betel pepper. Indeed this compound masticatory is in universal use throughout all India, the Oriental Islands, Cochin-china, and Tonquin. In addition to the little purse which every Chinese wears suspended from his belt as an appendage to his tobacco pipe and to hold the ingredients for smoking, whether tobacco, or opium, or both, he generally carries another to contain areca nuts broken into small fragments: the other materials, the betel leaf, and chunam are to be met with in every little eating shop, and on almost every stall in the bazar, or market, and are among the most common articles carried about the streets for sale. - A Man with Pipes for sale
The very general use of tobacco throughout the whole extensive empire of China, and the still more extensive regions of Tartary, would seem to contradict the commonly received opinion, that this herb is indigenous only in America. One can hardly suppose that the Chinese, who are so remarkably averse from the introduction of any thing novel, would, in the course of three centuries, have brought the custom of smoking into universal use; yet so it is; men of all ranks and all ages; women, whatever their condition in life may be, and children even of both sexes of eight or ten years of age, are furnished with the necessary apparatus for smoking tobacco. In walking the streets, in almost all the occupations of life, the tobacco pipe is seldom out of the mouth. - A Seller of Rice
Almost every necessary of life, and many articles that are not of that description, are carried about the streets for sale, and the invariable mode of bearing burthens of this kind is in baskets or boxes suspended from the two extremities of a bamboo lath, swung across the back part of the shoulder. If a Chinese should only have one basket to carry, he is sure to get a log of wood, or a large stone to counterpoise it at the opposite end, thus preferring to carry a double weight rather than place it on the head, or the shoulder, or across the arm. The Chinese are in appearance far from exhibiting any signs of great muscular powers, but in lifting, or carrying a load, they are probably not excelled by the porters even of Ireland. - A tradesman with his swan-pan
The Chinese merchants and tradesmen are most expert and ready reckoners; but they perform all arithmetical operations mechanically, by means of a table divided into two compartments, through which pass iron wires; and on these wires are strung in one compartment five, and in the other two, moveable balls. The principle is something of the same kind as that of the abacus of the Romans, and is with some little variation still made use of in Russia. It has been observed, that in weighing several thousand chests of tea, or bales of goods, at Canton, the Chinese accountant can invariably name the sum total long before the European can cast up his account. - A Chinese Bookseller
In so arbitrary a government as that of China, it would scarcely be supposed that the press should be free; that is to say, that every one who chooses it may follow the profession of a printer or a bookseller without any previous licence, or without submitting the works he may print or expose for sale to any censor appointed by government; but then he must take his chance to suffer in his person all the consequences that may result from the impression that may be made on the minds of the civil officers as to the tendency of the work. A libel against the government, an immoral or indecent book, would subject both printer and publisher to certain punishment both in his person and purse.