229/267
[ stop the slideshow ]

The Irish Crossing Sweeper

The Irish Crossing Sweeper.jpg The London DustmanThumbnailsThe Crossing sweeper that has been a maid servantThe London DustmanThumbnailsThe Crossing sweeper that has been a maid servantThe London DustmanThumbnailsThe Crossing sweeper that has been a maid servantThe London DustmanThumbnailsThe Crossing sweeper that has been a maid servantThe London DustmanThumbnailsThe Crossing sweeper that has been a maid servantThe London DustmanThumbnailsThe Crossing sweeper that has been a maid servantThe London DustmanThumbnailsThe Crossing sweeper that has been a maid servant

The Irish Crossing Sweeper

his man, a native of “County Corruk,” has been in England only two years and a half. He wears a close-fitting black cloth cap over a shock of reddish hair; round his neck he has a coloured cotton kerchief, of the sort advertised as “Imitation Silk.” His black coat is much torn, and his broom is at present remarkably stumpy. He waits quietly at the post opposite St. ——’s Church, to receive whatever is offered him. He is unassuming enough in his manner, and, as will be seen, not even bearing any malice against his two enemies, “The Swatestuff Man” and “The Switzer.”