[1] On the bough.
[2] Candlewick.
[3] Rushes green.
[4] Mr. J. E. Gardner’s collection of prints and drawings illustrating London, and numbering considerably over 120,000, contains many fine prints illustrating Old London Cries, including numerous examples of the alterations here indicated.
[5] “The Cries of London:” Copied from rare engravings or drawn from the life by John Thomas Smith, late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum, 1839. On inquiring at the Print Department of the British Museum for a copy of this work, the attendant knew nothing of it, and was quite sure the department had no such book. It turned up on a little pressure, however, but the leaves were uncut.—Les morts vont vite!
[8] “The best wigs are those made in Great Britain; they beat the French and German ones all to sticks.” The Book of Aphorisms, by a modern Pythagorean, 1834.
[9] Francis Grose tells us, in 1796, that some trades have from time immemorial invoked musical assistance,—such as those of pie, post, and dust men, who ring a bell.
My bell I keep ringing
And walk about merrily singing
My muffins.