the fustian jacket, unmistakably from some
small alloy or court. There are all
degrees of tidiness and untidiness; there
are women, with or without their
husbands, some as well dressed as the wives
of middle-class tradesmen, even to the
degree of a jaunty hat with a feather in
it, and with black bugles on the jacket or
cloak. The Hebrew element is little if at
all present.

It is scarcely too much to say that you
could furnish your house with the cheaper
kinds of necessaries by dipping here and
there among the motley miscellanies.
Stoves and small grates in every stage of
rustiness; tongs and pokers, fenders and
trivets, shovels with and without the edges
worn into fringe-work; kettles with new
covers or spouts, and saucepans with new
handles; flat irons new and old, and box-
irons that were rather aristocratic when
new; frying-pans, gridirons, crocks, and
pots; chairs, wooden and rush-bottomed;
plain deal tables, very much the worse for
wear; washing- tubs and pans, soap dishes
and clothes horses; clothes pegs "four
dozen a penny; farden a dozen here!" pepper
boxes, salt boxes, funnels, candlesticks, save-
alls, extinguishers, strainers, sieves, colanders,
snuffers, corkscrews, knives and forks,
spoons and ladles, plates and dishes, cups
and saucers, basins and jugs. Whatever
useful odds and ends you want, here you may
find them, very cheap if not very good. A
tidy hearth rug; useful pieces of carpeting
and floor-cloth; drugget and matting, new
and old; a once good-looking eight-day clock
(albeit the glass is cracked); ornaments for
the mantelpiece, even to the high style of
statuettes under glass shades; if not curtains
and blinds for the windows, at least some of
the adjuncts thereunto belonging; harps and
pianos; cheap concertinas; remnants for
mending sofas and stuffed chairs; pieces of
smart wall paper; a copper tea-kettle once
genteel; tea-trays with the most showy of
patterns; stamped glass that tries hard to
look like cut glass, in the forms of sugar
basins, cream jugs, tumblers and wine
glasses, decanters and caraffes, salts and
cruets; table-covers with and without a
gloss; lamps cheap, but not good; lamps
that were good in their days of prosperity;
work-boxes for the table, and everything
necessary for their supply; scissors, bodkins,
pins, needles, tapes, threads, thimbles;
knitting and netting implements, and those
for crochet and tatting; a writing-desk, and
cheap packets of envelopes and stationery.
And if the bed-room require attention, is not
this a stump bedstead, with tho worn-out
sacking renovated with a few new pieces?
And are not these old beds and mattresses,
old bolsters and pillows, all very cheap? And
is not this a washing-stand, and this an
apology for a chest of drawers, and this a
looking-glass with some of the silvering
gone? Are these not tidy pieces that
would make curtains for the bed and the
windows? Cannot the husband purchase
here his shaving-tackle, and the wife her
brushes, and combs, and hair-pins?

As for clothing, the veritable tailors and
drapers may not be largely represented;
and yet a working man and his family
could find wherewithal here to clothe
themselves from top to toe. There are a
few outer garments, new and old; there
are gown pieces, some of them apparently
re-dyed, and available to work up into smart
forms; there is a hat for John, and there is
a cap for Johnny; there are boots and shoes,
new and old, men's and women's, thick and
thin; leggings, capes, and waterproofs.
Whether there are stays, chignons, and
other intricacies of women's dress, may be
left to women to say; but assuredly here is
a cheap-jack hosier, who, with a small cart
as his rostrum, and his wife as an assistant,
knocks down three pairs of stockings for a
shilling, and other articles of men's,
women's, and children's hosiery, equally cheap.
Umbrellas and parasols in various stages
of lameness; articles of common fur; of
better fur that was once worn by well-to-do
people; of cheap lace, of cheap new
velvet, of second-hand good velvet, of
haberdashery and millinery, of bead work
and braid work, artificial flowers, and well-
nigh artificial feathers; serve to swell the
list.

There is scarcely a mechanical trade in
the metropolis not represented at this
curious fair or market, in the tools or
implements employed. The bricklayer may
here obtain new or second-hand (mostly
the latter) trowels, squares, levels, straight-
edges, plumb-lines; the carpenter can selecfc
from an odd medley of hammers, mallets,
saws, planes, pincers, pliers, screw-
drivers, bradawls, gimlets, gauges, bevels,
chisels, gouges, and baskets to stow them
all in; smiths can find anvils, rickety old
forge bellows, forge hammers, files, rasps,
swages, locks, keys, bolts, latches, bars,
rods, wire; ironmongery is busy with its
hinges, screws, nails, brads, tacks, rings,
hooks, hasps, staples; diggers can meet with
pickaxes, shovels, and wheel-barrows; slaters
and tilers can pick up many of the materials
and tools which help to roof us all in; there
are soldering irons and ladles for plumbers;