It was a rare good thing for all the running and standing patterers in and about ten miles of London.
CHEAP JACKS, or JOHNS, oratorical hucksters and patterersof hardware, &c.
From the inquiries I have made of various patterers and “paper workers,” I learn that the rhyming Slang was introduced about twelve or fifteen years ago.
From the inquiries I have made of various patterersand "paper-workers," I learn that the rhyming slang was introduced about twelve or fifteen years ago.
I am told that there are not twelve patterers in London whom a critical professor of street elocution will admit to be capable of “working a catechism” or a litany.
Sometimes the poetry is attributed to a sister of mercy, or to a popular poetess; very frequently, by the patterers who best understand the labouring classes, to Miss Eliza Cook.
The running patterers describe, or profess to describe, the contents of their papers as they go along, and they seldom or never stand still.
The most successful workers of this branch of the profession are the men described as patterers and chaunters.
The patterers have only to stick a picture in their hat to attract attention, and to make all the noise they can.
At Castle Garden thepatterers meet with a constant stream of freshly arrived emigrants.
The men patterers are a much larger class in New York than the women.
We never saw more than two American womenpatterers in New York, and have no recollection of ever seeing a Jewess, a Scotch woman, or a Spanish woman.
The womenpatterers are usually a very ugly-looking set.
Shallow patterers of divine creeds were, therefore, most abhorrent to him.
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