⁂ “Beggars’ Marks upon House Corners.—On our doorways, and on our house corners and gate-posts, curious chalk marks may occasionally be observed, which, although meaningless to us, are full of suggestion to tramps, beggars, and pedlars. Mr. Hotten intends giving, in the new edition of his ‘Slang Dictionary’—the fourth—some extra illustrations descriptive of this curious and, it is believed, ancient method of communicating the charitable or ill-natured intentions of house occupants; and he would be obliged by the receipt, at 74, Piccadilly, London, of any facts which might assist his inquiry.”—Notes and Queries.
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