: London Labour and the London Poor Vol. 3 by Mayhew Henry - Poor England London; London (England) Social conditions; Criminals England London; Prostitution England London; Charities England London; Working class England London; Unemployed England London

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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

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.

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 under his chin, sharp deep-set eyes, a tight-skinned nose that looked as if the cuticle had been stretched to its utmost on its bridge. He was dressed in the ordinary corduroy costermonger habit, having, in addition, a dark blue Guernsey drawn over his waistcoat.

The man's first anxiety was to show us that rats were not his only diversion; and in consequence he took us into the yard of the house, where in a shed lay a bull-dog, a bull-bitch, and a litter of pups just a week old. They did not belong to him, but he said he did a good deal in the way of curing dogs when he could get 'em.

On a shelf in this shed were two large dishes, the one containing mussels without the shells, and the other eels; these are the commodities in which he deals at present, so that he is properly what one would call a "pickled-eel seller."

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