The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-05-09


had four fioggings; it was bad enough
llogging was, while it lasted; but whe
, got out soon forget it, At week
, end, | never thought again about Il.
had been better treated, should hav
been better lad. l could leave O
thieving now, as if had never thicvec
. if could live without l have carrie
ON this sort Of life until now, and don
often make a good thing of it. 1 sa,
Manning and his wife hung Mrs. Man
ming was dressed beautifully when sh
came up. She screeched whcn JAG
Ketch pulled the bolt away. She wa
harder than Manning, they all said
without her there would have been n
murder. 1t was great deall talke,
about, and Naming was pitied. 1t wa
a punishment to herto come on the scat
fold and see Manning with the rope abeu
his neck, if people takes it in the RICH
light. | did Is. I'D. at the hanging, tw'
handkerchiefs, and purse with 2s. il
1.-THE best purse | ever had
BEGGARs.
A beggar decently attired, and with ;
simple, and what some would call eve,
respectable look, gave me the follow
ing statement
! Il am now twenty-eight, and have
known all connected with the begging
trade since | was Ia. l took to screu
ing, (writing on the stones.) got my
head shaved, end cloth tied round my
jaws, and wrote on the flags
"Niness and Want,"
though was never better in my life
and always had a good bellyful before
started in the morning. | did very wei
at tirst-3s. or As. day-some times
more-till got grannied. There is one
man who draws Christ's heads, with a
crown of thorns,. and mackeral, on the
pavement, in colorcd chalks, (there arc
four or FIVE others at the same business;
this one, however, often makes FL day
now in three hours; indeed, | have
known him once come home with 2ls.,
besides what he drank On the way. A
gentleman who met him in Regent ST.,
once gave him a suit of clothes and fs
to do Christ's head, with a crown oi
thorns, and mackeral on the walls. His
son does Napoleon's heads best, but
mekes nothing like so omuch as the father.
The father draws cats heads and sal
mon as well-but the others are far the
best spec. He will often give thirteen
pence, and indeed fourteen pence, for a
silver shilling, to get rid of the coppers.
The mans pitch is Lloyd Square, moi
far from Sadler's Wells. l have seer
him commence his pitch there at half
past IL. to catch the people coming from
the theatre. He is very clever In we
weather, and when couldn't chalk, as
l couldn't afford to lose time, used tc
dress tidy and very clean, for the Tepect'
able broken-dorn tradesmon or reduced
gentleman caper. Iwore suit of black
generally, and a clean dicky, and some.
times old black kid gloves, and used tc
stand with paper before my face, as i
ashamed
"To Humane Public,
'Ihare seen Better Days
! This is called standing pad with a
fakement. 1t is a wet weather dodge
and isn't so good as screening: but die
midding, and can't bear being idle. Af
ter this, | mixed with the street Patter.
ers. (men who make speeches in The
streets, On the destitute mechanics lurL'
We went in a school of six at first, al
in clean aprons, and spoke every mar
in his turn 1t won't do unless you are
clean. Each man wanted particular
article of dress. One had no shirt
another no shoes-anoiher no hat-ant
so on No two wanted the same. W.
did we'll at first, making about 5s. da,
each, working four hours, two in th'
morning and two in the afternoon. W.
got coed deal of clothing too. 1'v'
been cut On the respectable family mai
lurk was out with a woman and three
kids the other day, her husband was ol
the pad in the country, as London wa
too hot to hold him. The kids draws
the younger the better, for if you We!
them, and they're oldish, they'll blow
you. Liverpool Joe's boy did SO at Bur.
St. Edmund's, to patterer that he wa
out with, and who spoke cross to him
The lad shouted cut so as the peopl'
about him might hear, Don't you jaw
me. You're not my father; my father
at home, playing cards They had t.
crack the pitch, disc continue through
that. The respectable family dodge di'
pretty well. I've been on the clean famit
Turk, too, with woman and children
We dressed to give the notion that, how
ever humble, at least we were clean il
all our poverty. On this lurk we stan'
by the side Of the pavement in silence
the wife in a particular clean cap and
milk-white apron. The kids have lon:
clean pinifores, white as the driven snow
they're only used in the clean lurk, an,
taken off directly they come home. Tn
husband and father is in a white fame
Jacket, an apron worn and clean, un
polished shoes. To succeed in this ca
per, there must be no rags, but plent
of darns. a pack of Pawn-tickets
carried in the waistcoat pocket. (On
man that | know stuck them in his ha
like a carman's. That's to show tha
they've parted with their little all befor
they came to ;hat. They are real pawn
tickets. The clean lurk is a bare livin
now-it was good-lots of togs came in
and often the whole family was take
into house and supplied with fame
enough to make under-clothing for tber
all All this they pledged soon after