to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 3 of 4) Author: Henry Mayhew Release Date: April 27, 2018 [EBook #57060] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LONDON LABOUR *** Produced by Henry Flower, Suzanne Lybarger, the booksmiths at eBookForge and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings OF THOSE THAT _WILL_ WORK THOSE THAT _CANNOT_ WORK, AND THOSE THAT _WILL NOT_ WORK BY HENRY MAYHEW THE LONDON STREET-FOLK COMPRISING STREET SELLERS · STREET BUYERS · STREET FINDERS STREET PERFORMERS · STREET ARTIZANS · STREET LABOURERS WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS VOLUME THREE First edition 1851 (_Volume One only and parts of Volumes Two and Three_) Enlarged edition (Four volumes) 1861-62 New impression 1865 CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. THE STREET-FOLK. PAGE THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN 1 STREET-EXHIBITORS 43 STREET-MUSICIANS 158 STREET-VOCALISTS 190 STREET-ARTISTS 204 EXHIBITORS OF TRAINED ANIMALS 214 SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOUR 221 GARRET-MASTERS 221 THE COAL-HEAVERS 234 BALLAST-MEN 265 LUMPERS 288 THE DOCK-LABOURERS 300 CHEAP LODGING-HOUSES 312 THE TRANSIT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE METROPOLIS 318 LONDON WATERMEN, LIGHTERMEN, AND STEAMBOAT-MEN 327 LONDON OMNIBUS-DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS 336 LONDON CAB-DRIVERS 351 LONDON CARMEN AND PORTERS 357 LONDON VAGRANTS 368 MEETING OF TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN 430 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE RAT-KILLING AT SPORTING PUBLIC-HOUSES 7 JACK BLACK, RAT-KILLER TO HER MAJESTY 11 PUNCH’S SHOWMAN, WITH ASSISTANT 45 GUY FAUX 63 STREET-TELESCOPE EXHIBITOR 81 STREET-ACROBATS PERFORMING 93 STREET-CONJUROR 117 CIRCUS-CLOWN AT FAIR 132 STREET-PERFORMERS ON STILTS 150 OLD SARAH 160 ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS 190 INTERIOR OF PHOTOGRAPHER’S TRAVELLING CARAVAN 207 A GARRET-MASTER, OR CHEAP CABINET-MAKER 225 GANG OF COAL-WHIPPERS AT WORK BELOW BRIDGE 241 COAL-PORTERS FILLING WAGGONS AT COAL-WHARF 261 BALLAST-HEAVERS AT WORK IN THE POOL 279 LUMPERS DISCHARGING TIMBER-SHIP IN COMMERCIAL DOCK 297 A DINNER AT A CHEAP LODGING-HOUSE 314 THAMES LIGHTERMEN TUGGING AWAY AT THE OAR 333 CAB-DRIVER 351 STREET TICKET-PORTERS WITH KNOT 364 VAGRANT IN THE CASUAL WARD OF WORKHOUSE 387 VAGRANT, FROM THE REFUGE IN PLAYHOUSE-YARD, CRIPPLEGATE 406 VAGRANT, FROM ASYLUM FOR THE HOUSELESS POOR 423 MEETING OF TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN 430 LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR. THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN. THE RAT-KILLER. In “the Brill,” or rather in Brill-place, Somers’-town, there is a variety of courts branching out into Chapel-street, and in one of the most angular and obscure of these is to be found a perfect nest of rat-catchers--not altogether professional rat-catchers, but for the most part sporting mechanics and costermongers. The court is not easily to be found, being inhabited by men not so well known in the immediate neighbourhood as perhaps a mile or two away, and only to be discovered by the aid and direction of the little girl at the neighbouring cat’s-meat shop. My first experience of this court was the usual disturbance at the entrance. I found one end or branch of it filled with a mob of eager listeners, principally women, all attracted to a particular house by the sounds of quarrelling. One man gave it as his opinion that the disturbers must have earned too much money yesterday; and a woman, speaking to another who had just come out, lifting up both her hands and laughing, said, “Here they are--_at it_ again!” The rat-killer whom we were in search of was out at his stall in Chapel-street when we called, but his wife soon fetched him. He was a strong, sturdy-looking man, rather above the middle height, with light hair, ending in sandy whiskers, reaching...