6. _The Street-sellers of Second-hand Articles_, of whom there are again four separate classes; as (_a_) those who sell old metal articles--viz. old knives and forks, keys, tin-ware, tools, and marine stores generally; (_b_) those who sell old linen articles--as old sheeting for towels; (_c_) those who sell old glass and crockery--including bottles, old pans and pitchers, old looking glasses, &c.; and (_d_) those who sell old miscellaneous articles--as old shoes, old clothes, old saucepan lids, &c., &c.
7. _The Street-sellers of Live Animals_--including the dealers in dogs, squirrels, birds, gold and silver fish, and tortoises.
8. _The Street-sellers of Mineral Productions and Curiosities_--as red and white sand, silver sand, coals, coke, salt, spar ornaments, and shells.
These, so far as my experience goes, exhaust the whole class of street-sellers, and they appear to constitute nearly three-fourths of the entire number of individuals obtaining a subsistence in the streets of London.
The next class are the STREET-BUYERS, under which denomination come the purchasers of hareskins, old clothes, old umbrellas, bottles, glass, broken metal, rags, waste paper, and dripping.
After these we have the STREET-FINDERS, or those who, as I said before, literally “pick up” their living in the public thoroughfares. They are the “pure” pickers, or those who live by gathering dogs’-dung; the cigar-end finders, or “hard-ups,” as they are called, who collect the refuse pieces of smoked cigars from the gutters, and having dried them, sell them as tobacco to the very poor; the dredgermen or coal-finders; the mud-larks, the bone-grubbers; and the sewer-hunters.
Under the fourth division, or that of the STREET-PERFORMERS, ARTISTS, AND SHOWMEN, are likewise many distinct callings.
1. _The Street-Performers_, who admit of being classified into (_a_) mountebanks--or those who enact puppet-shows, as Punch and Judy, the fantoccini, and the Chinese shades. (_b_) The street-performers of feats of strength and dexterity--as “acrobats” or posturers, “equilibrists” or balancers, stiff and bending tumblers, jugglers, conjurors, sword-swallowers, “salamanders” or fire-eaters, swordsmen, etc. (_c_) The street-performers with trained animals--as dancing dogs, performing monkeys, trained birds and mice, cats and hares, sapient pigs, dancing bears, and tame camels. (_d_) The street-actors--as clowns, “Billy Barlows,” “Jim Crows,” and others.