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No Cries arc sure of such renown, 
 As those of famous London town. 
 
 Oid siioes ! oid hats ! come little dear, 
 To hear me cry you need not fear ; 
 There's difference great between us two, 
 /always cry but seldom you, 
 And you cry tears I should suppose, 
 While 1 cry nothing but old Cloaths. 
 
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CRIES OF LONDON 
 
 Radishes. 
 
 These radishes, so fait: and round, 
 To please the pa : fci J n d ; 
 
 Fourteen a penny is the price, 
 You'll surely buy, they are so nice. 
 Try with a few good radishes, 
 How bread and butter relishes. 
 
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 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 The seed of the radish is small, but 
 of considera ble use for die health of 
 man ; much attention is paid to the 
 culture of this very useful root. — I 
 wish you to take a delight in culti- 
 vating a garden ; there will be found 
 in this employ real usefulness, instruc- 
 tion, and health. — Many of the inha- 
 bitants of large cities are strangers to 
 employments in rural life ; remember 
 you are placed in a spacious and well- 
 furnished world, and that Providence 
 has provided man with materials where- 
 on to employ his art and strength; 
 and has given him an excellent instru- 
 ment, the hand, accommodated to 
 make use of them all ; and has distin- 
 guished the earth into hills, valleys, 
 plains, meadows, and woods ; all these 
 parts capable of culture and improve- 
 ment by his industry; and has com- 
 mitted to him for his assistance, in his 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 7 
 
 labours of ploughing, carrying, draw- 
 ing, and travel, the laborious ox, 
 the patient ass, and the strong and 
 serviceable horse ; has also created a 
 multitude of seeds for him, of what 
 is most pleasant to taste, and of most 
 wholesome and plentiful nourishment ; 
 and has likewise made a great variety* 
 of trees, bearing fruit both for food 
 and physic, those too capable of being 
 meliorated and improved by trans- 
 plantation, pruning, watering, and 
 other arts and devices ; therefore the 
 bountiful and gracious Author of 
 man's being and faculties, delights in 
 the beauty of his creation, and is well 
 pleased with the industry of man, in 
 adorning the earth with beautiful cities, 
 pleasant villages, with regular gardens, 
 orchards, and plantations of all sorts 
 of shrubs, herbs, and fruits, for meat, 
 medicine, or moderate delight. 
 
Nice mutton dumplings ! smoking hot, 
 And just brought boiling from the pot : 
 Take my word, they are very good ; 
 Besides, they make substantial food. 
 Consider now the price of meat, 
 And you'll say they are also cheap. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 9 
 
 In the Gazette great news to day, 
 The enemy is beat, they say. — 
 But what, alas! will that avail? 
 Since war we still have to bewail. 
 Yet all are eager to be told 
 The news that new events unfold. 
 
19 CRIES OP LONDON. 
 
 Newspapers are much read and ex- 
 peditiously circulated through all parts 
 of Great Britain; each pay a duty to 
 the government before they are used 
 by the public, which produces great 
 sums of money : if the produce of 
 the numerons taxes which abound in 
 England were always suitabi} applied, 
 there surely would not be an occasion 
 of laying so many new ones on the 
 industry of the inhabitants ; nothing 
 tends so much to reduce to poverty 
 and misery the people of any country 
 as the continuance of long and obsti- 
 nate wars : always remember, this is 
 one of the greatest evils with which 
 mankind can be afflicted. — A disposi- 
 tion to be at peace and friendship with 
 all mankind, cannot fail to be produc- 
 tive of every benefit and happiness in 
 an individual as well as in a national 
 capacity. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Hot Cross Buns! 
 
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 Little folks will lend an ear 
 When this pair approaches near ; 
 Their buns are found so very nice, 
 They are always eager for a slice, 
 But if flour should rise anew, 
 To hot-cross buns we bid adieu. 
 
12 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 One of the most noted cries of Lon- 
 don was of the famous pig-man of 
 whom there is a portrait extant ; and 
 who has had the honour of being imita- 
 ted by several successors : his cry was, 
 
 A long-tail'd pig, or a short-tail'd pig, 
 
 Or a pig without ever a tail ; 
 
 A sow-pig, or a boar-pig, 
 
 Or a pig with a curly tail. 
 
 Come buy a nice pig, and currant sauce ! 
 
 The pigs were three or four inches 
 long, composed of what is called stand- 
 ing crust ; baked with currant sauce in 
 the belly. 
 
 Upwards of forty years since, a mise- 
 rable wretch perambulated this metro- 
 polis, to purchase, " Shreds and Pat- 
 ches," whose cry was, 
 
 Linen, woollen and leather, 
 Bring 'em out all together. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 13 
 
 A singular cry of an equestrian is re- 
 collected to have been heard between thir- 
 ty and forty years since; a rustic mount- 
 ed on a white hobby, with a basket on 
 one arm, used to invade the north pur- 
 lieus of London, mumbling "Hollo- 
 way Cheesecakes !" which from 
 his mode of utterance, sounded like, 
 All my teeth ach ! There was also a no- 
 ted vender of gingerbread, at Bartholo- 
 mew, South wark, and other fairs, about 
 the period already adverted to ; he was 
 called Ttddy Doll, because, to collect his 
 customers around his basket, he used 
 to chaunt a song, in which scarcely any 
 thing was articulated, but the cant 
 expression, "Tiddy Doll," he used to 
 wear a high cock'd hat & feather, with a 
 broad scollop 'd gold lace on it ; and 
 had the honour, like the pig -man, of 
 being imitated by succeeding venders 
 of gingerbread. 
 
14 C RIES OF LONDON 
 
 Herrings. 
 
 Alive and fresh, good herrings oh! 
 Six a groat, is cheap, you know. 
 Off Britain's coast they late were caught, 
 And in a ship but just now brought. 
 If Mrs. Cook will dress them well, 
 Of their goodness you will tell ; 
 Or if, to salt them you 're inclin'd, 
 There's not a doubt they '11 suit your 
 mind. 
 
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 CRIES OF LONDON. IS 
 
 Bedstead, buy Dolls' Bedsteads / 
 
 Here little girls will doubtless find 
 What cannot fail to please their mind ; 
 Bedsteads of every size the best, 
 On which their painted dolls may rest : 
 And 'tis but right that you should grant, 
 What you yourselves so often want. 
 
16 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 This is not a very frequent London 
 cry, there is only one man I ever heard 
 call " Dolls' Bedsteads," he is no w 
 I believe often to be seen and heard in 
 various parts of the town. London 
 has produced some very strange cha- 
 racters under the description of Lon- 
 don Cries ; JefFery Dunstan, who was 
 living a few years back, was one of 
 the most eccentric in his person and 
 cry ; many of these sort of people 
 have met with much more notice and 
 encouragement, than perhaps their 
 way of living merited. Those who 
 are amiable and useful should always 
 be preferred to an opposite character. 
 
 There are several well executed en- 
 gravings of JefFery Dunstan ; he excited 
 considerable curiosity when living, 
 his figure was ugly and deformed, and 
 his intemperance in drinking rendered 
 him absolutely a brute, and ultimately 
 caused his death. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 17 
 
 Hot Spice Gingerbread, all hot / 
 
 Here is spice-eake for those good boys 
 Who better love their books than toys ; 
 And little girls may have their share, 
 As often as they sew with care : 
 Here he comes! his basket smokes; 
 Buy some spice, good little folks. 
 
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 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 A few years since, there was a blind 
 man who constantly sat at the corner 
 of Chiswell Street, Moorfields, at the 
 time when the ground on which Fins- 
 bury Square is now built was open 
 fields, whose loud and singular voice 
 was heard by many at a great dis- 
 tance ; he could readily distinguish 
 between good and bad halfpence di- 
 rectly he felt them, and has been fre- 
 quently heard to say to little boys 
 when they have offered him bad money, 
 " That won't do" — " That's not a 
 good one." Thus poor Jemmy would 
 as easily detect and as readily refuse 
 bad money, though quite blind, as 
 many persons who have the use of their 
 sight, the coldest night in winter did 
 not prevent his regular appearance in 
 his accustomed seat; he has now al- 
 together disappeared, I suppose him to 
 be deceased, or perhaps the new inha- 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 19 
 
 bitants of the square have disapproved 
 of his presence, as they have now con- 
 stantly in their employ a man walking 
 round their dwellings to keep away 
 characters similar to poor Jemmy. 
 
 * " Hot Spiced Gingerbread, 
 " sold in oblong flat cakes of one 
 " halfpenny each, very well made, well 
 " baked, and kept extremely hot, is a 
 " very pleasing regale to the pedestri- 
 " ans of London in cold and gloomy 
 " evenings. This cheap luxury is only 
 " to be obtained in winter; and when 
 " that dreary season is displaced by 
 " the long light days of summer, a 
 " well known retailer of hot spiced 
 " gingerbread takes his usual stand 
 " near the portico of the Pantheon 
 " with a basket of Banburv and other 
 " cakes." 
 
 * Modern London. 
 
My game are round and fat you see, 
 
 If on the price we can agree : 
 
 These ducks but one day since were shot. 
 
 And suit alike the spit or pot. 
 
 Or if for game you're not inclin'd, 
 
 Here is a chicken to your mind. 
 
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CRIES OF LONDON 
 
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 •Tis very proper to be known 
 Whatever may come from the throne. 
 This gracious speech, 'tis said, con- 
 tains 
 
 Something that will assuage our pains ; 
 But must new taxes yet continue, 
 Still to increase the revenue ? 
 
22 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Poor woman! The old soldier's 
 jacket may keep her warm, and her large 
 hat may prevent her shoulders getting 
 wet. The money she gets by selling 
 the speech, may perhaps buy her a 
 good strong cloak, she seems almost 
 too old to be exposed in the open 
 streets to the cold weather. It will be 
 pleasant to learn by the speech, that 
 the war is likely to be at an end ; it 
 must be more advantageous to the 
 country at all times, to keep the sword 
 in its sheath, than to suffer it to be 
 used at all, even in what is called a 
 just cause; you know, the other day, 
 when your school-fellow Ben Dawson, 
 considered himself injured by the in- 
 sults of rude Harry Robinson, he fell 
 to fighting, thinking by thus retali- 
 ating upon a received injury he should 
 obtain the mastery over his antagonist, 
 but what was the result, why his op- 
 
CRIES OF LONDON'. 
 
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 ponent's strength proved the greatest, 
 and poor Ben was obliged to give in, 
 and contentedly sat down insulted and 
 bruised ; now if he had been only wise 
 enough to bear the insult without op- 
 position, he would only have had to 
 experience one inconvenience instead 
 of two. 
 
 Let dogs delight to bark and bite, 
 For God hath made them so ; 
 
 Let bears and lions growl and fight, 
 For 'tis their nature too. 
 
 But children, you should never let 
 
 Such angry passions rise ; 
 Your little hands were never made 
 
 To tear each other's eyes. 
 
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 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Come buy nice young Water Cresses, 
 
 Stern winter is no sooner gone, 
 And nature's milder garb put on, 
 Than young and tender cresses grow, 
 Where smooth streams and rivulets flow. 
 These at once to town we bring, 
 And announce th' approach of spring- 
 
CRIES OF LONDON, 
 
 Buy a Mop, Brush, or Hair Broom ? 
 
 Good money he takes, and bad he refuses, 
 For a mop, or a broom, as his customer 
 chooses, 
 
 To keep places clean and free from filth, 
 Tends greatly to preserve good health. 
 Then buy of me my mops and brooms. 
 And quickly ply them to your rooms. 
 
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 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 About 50 years back, there crept 
 alone; a sleek-headed, whimsical little 
 old man, commonly callen The Wooden 
 Poet, from his crying wooden ware, 
 which he carried in a basket slung 
 round his neck, about the streets ; 
 chaunting a kind of song, in doggrel 
 rhyme, nearly as can be recollected as 
 follows : 
 
 " Come, my good soul, 
 
 Will you buy a wooden bowl ? 
 
 I am just come from the Borough, 
 
 Will you buy a pudding-stirrer ? 
 
 T hope I am not come too soon, 
 
 But you may buy a wooden spoon 1 
 
 I made all the haste I was able 
 
 For fear you should want a good ladle, 
 
 And if I am not come too late, 
 
 Please to buy a trencher or wooden plate ; 
 
 Qr, if they won't do, its no great matter, 
 
 So you buy of me a wooden platter ; 
 
 It may help you and me to get a dinner, 
 
 If you buy of me a wooden skimmer. 
 
 Come, neighbours, come, I deal just and fair 
 
 Come, and buy all sorts of wooden ware 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 These and other cries, used to be 
 so much noticed, that Shuter, the most 
 luxuriant comedian of his time, fre- 
 quently entertained the audience on 
 his benefit nights, with an admirable 
 imitation of them; which were styled 
 in the play bills, " The Cries of Lon- 
 don." 
 
 " Let not ambition mock their useful toil, 
 Their homely songs, and destiny obscure ; 
 Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile. 
 The short but simple annals of the poor.'* 
 
 Hearth-brooms, brushes, sieves, 
 bowls, clothes-horses, and lines, and 
 almost cverv household article of tur- 
 nery, are cried in the streets. 
 
 Some of these walking turners travel 
 with a cart, by which they can extend 
 their trade ; but the greater mumber 
 carry their shop on their shoulders, and 
 lind customers sufficient to afford them 
 a decent subsistence. 
 
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 CRIES OFLONDOX. 
 
 Six-pence a peck, these peasare sold* 
 Fresh, and green, and far from old ; 
 Which as times go cannot be dear, 
 And don't forget the time of year. 
 See for yourselves, they are clean and 
 round, 
 
 As any peas that can be found, 
 Just come growing from the ground. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 * " The earliest pea brought to the 
 London market is distinguished by the 
 name of Hastens ; it belongs to the 
 dwarf genus, and is succeeded by 
 the Hospur. This early pea, the real 
 hastens, is raised in hot beds, and sold 
 in the markets at the high price of a 
 guinea per quart." 
 
 Colly Molly Puff was a singu- 
 larity in the reign of James the 2d. 
 This little man who had nothing at all 
 striking in his appearance, and was 
 but just able to support the basket of 
 pastry, which he carried upon his head, 
 sung, in a very peculiar tone, the cant 
 words which passed into his name. 
 The spectator No. 25, informs us that 
 he was called Colly Molly Pun . This 
 singularity was very advantageous to 
 him, as it rendered him one of the 
 most noted of the Cries of London. 
 Of this humble creature, who was 
 " crawling betxveen heaven and earth" 
 nothing more than the above is any- 
 where recorded. 
 
 Modern London, 
 
30 CRIES OF LONDON*. 
 
 A groat a Pound black heart Cherries 
 
 Delicious to the taste are found 
 These tempting cherries, sound and 
 round. 
 
 No where better will you meet, 
 For like sugar they are sweet: 
 But if you should incline to buy, 
 Be so kind first one to try. 
 
CWES OF LONDON- 
 
 Rabbits. 
 
 The Rabbits on a pole are hung, 
 And then across his shoulders shine:. 
 With a loud, now still louder voice, 
 He calls to all to make their choice. 
 But if his trade you should not know, 
 Soon you will hear by * r abb it no!' 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Rabbits were originally natives of 
 hot climates; they were known to the 
 Greeks ; and it appears that the only 
 countries in Europe where they ancient- 
 ly existed, were Greece and Spain. 
 From thence they were brought into 
 the more temperate climates of Italy, 
 France, England, and Germany, where 
 now they are naturalized; but in colder 
 climates, as Sweden, and other northern 
 parts, they can scarcely be reared in 
 the house, and perish if they are left 
 in the fields. The holes which it digs 
 in the earth, where it retires in the day, 
 protect it from the wolf, fox, and 
 birds of prey : it is a timid but saga- 
 cious animal, its food is excellent, and 
 its fur is very useful for making hats, 
 and what is unfit for that purpose has 
 been found as good as down, for stuff- 
 ing beds and bolsters. 
 
 Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Lin- 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 colnshire, are the counties in England 
 where rabbits most abound. Though 
 this animal bears a striking resem- 
 blance to the hare, yet they are entirely 
 of a distinct race, and, if confined in 
 the same spot, invariably disagree. 
 
 There is hardly any study more in- 
 teresting than natural history ; indeed 
 a considerable share of instruction 
 may be received from a careful perusal 
 of the various habits and dispositions 
 of the brute creation, and every one 
 of them will exhibit marks of the 
 wisdom and excellence of their great 
 Creator, therefore 1 wish every little 
 boy and girl to interest themselves in 
 this study. 
 
The sweep, perhaps, some may despise. 
 And view him with disgustful eyes ; 
 But if he sweeps our chimneys clean, 
 He's well employ'd, tho' it be mean. 
 And of the charge be not afraid, 
 Give him the soot, the cost is paid. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON 
 
 I hope this man will always use the 
 little boy well ; many are the instances 
 of cruel treatment they have received 
 from unthinking masters. I much 
 wish this cry was a stranger to London , 
 and every where else ; there is a bene- 
 volent society established for the abo~ 
 lition of this miserable employ, by 
 endeavouring to introduce a better 
 plan of sweeping chimneys, which, in 
 a little time, may do away the neces- 
 sity of employing little boys in so 
 dangerous and unwholesome a busi- 
 ness. 
 
 The poor little fellow in the print 
 seems too young to carry even an 
 empty sack ; he is almost bent double 
 with premature exertions, whilst his 
 sturdy master's loud and gruff voice for- 
 cibly strikes the ear when contrasted 
 with the faint cry of his little climber. 
 
 
 
36 OKIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Flowers. 
 
 Here are flowers, a! fresh as day, 
 And of those soils that are most gay : 
 These pinks and roses, in full bloom, 
 Wiil nicely decorate a room. 
 To crown the whole behold that briar, 
 Of which the sweetness all admire. 
 
GRiES OF LONDON 
 
 Of his approach to let them know 
 He shouts aloud with, 4 milk below' 
 Be ready maids, don't make him stay 
 Time, like an arrow, shoots away. 
 Fresh from the cow his milk is pure. 
 And of good measure you are sure. 
 
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33 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 This man sells genuine milk from 
 the cow: he ought to be encouraged, 
 he has taken much pains to make an 
 instrument called a gage that his cus- 
 tomers may ascertain for themselves 
 the purity of what he sells ; a great 
 deal of bad milk is sold in London ; 
 }^ou very well know we ourselves can 
 easily add a little water to it, if it proves 
 too good, but of this there is little 
 fear, the public are seriously imposed 
 upon by the introduction of water, 
 this is an inconvenience which inha- 
 bitants of large cities are very liable 
 to experience. 
 
 Milk is now very dear, and when a 
 great price is paid, should be good in 
 quality ; you recollect having some 
 boiled the other morning for breakfast 
 when you should have had it to eat 
 with bread, it turned to curds, thereby 
 rendered unfit for use, now this would 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
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 not have been so if the milk had been 
 e:ood. 
 
 The cow is one of the most useful 
 animals we have, and deserves to be 
 used kindly and fed on good hay, rich 
 grass, and sweet turnips. 
 
 * " It is calculated that 8,500 Cows 
 are kept for the supply of milk, and 
 that 6, 980, 000 gallons are annually sold 
 in London. Milk- Walks, that is a cer- 
 tain proportion of neighbouring streets 
 served by a particular person, are 
 sometimes disposed of by advertise- 
 ment, and often for a considerable pre- 
 mium. Cream is sold by the milk- 
 carriers at one shilling and four-pence 
 per pint." 
 
 Modern London. 
 
CRIBS OF LONDON 
 
 The Dust Man. 
 
 Dust ho ! he cries, and with a ring, ^ 
 The dust he makes them quickly brir 
 Which in his cart takes away, 
 To make his bricks, when mix'd with 
 clay. 
 
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