The Life and Adventures of a Cheap JackChatto and Windus, 1881 - 336 páginas A cheap John (or Jack) was a hawker. |
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... travelled , we had in the first place to be licensed as hawkers , and to get that licence we had to pay 81. per year , or any portion of a year , for one horse , or 127. for two horses , besides getting two vouchers from two respectable ...
... travelled , we had in the first place to be licensed as hawkers , and to get that licence we had to pay 81. per year , or any portion of a year , for one horse , or 127. for two horses , besides getting two vouchers from two respectable ...
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... to be speaking truth . In all my experience of travelling I don't think I ever found anything equal to the delight of stopping or halting for a few hours at mid B 2 A CHEAP JACK . 3 goods pay ready money for everything, for the ...
... to be speaking truth . In all my experience of travelling I don't think I ever found anything equal to the delight of stopping or halting for a few hours at mid B 2 A CHEAP JACK . 3 goods pay ready money for everything, for the ...
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... travelling perhaps twenty miles in the morning the horses and the men becoming tired and worn out with the dust and the heat , than to draw off when we found a convenient place at the side of the road where there was a nice bit of grass ...
... travelling perhaps twenty miles in the morning the horses and the men becoming tired and worn out with the dust and the heat , than to draw off when we found a convenient place at the side of the road where there was a nice bit of grass ...
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... travelled with him or been at the business in some way . The summer was the worst time for business , but of course the best for the pleasures of travelling . It frequently happened after or while making a halt as above described that a ...
... travelled with him or been at the business in some way . The summer was the worst time for business , but of course the best for the pleasures of travelling . It frequently happened after or while making a halt as above described that a ...
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... travelling in some way or another , as going to market and driving home the beasts , and at other times going long distances either on foot or on an old horse called " Daddy , " belonging to my father , to fetch home his purchases from ...
... travelling in some way or another , as going to market and driving home the beasts , and at other times going long distances either on foot or on an old horse called " Daddy , " belonging to my father , to fetch home his purchases from ...
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BESANT and JAMES bills Birmingham boys Bravo BRET HARTE Brighton brother called carriage Charley CHATTO & WINDUS Cheap Jack Cheap John cloth extra cloth limp Coloured Crown 8vo Demy 8vo dodge dressed drink Edited Elias Facsimile fair Fred Jolly Friday friends George gilt give guinea Harry here's horse Jack Stokes JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE joke JUSTIN MCCARTHY kettle knew London look MACQUOID Maidstone Mat Hunt matter morning never night nobblers nose numerous Illustrations once OUIDA pair party person PICCADILLY poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds replied road round Sammy sell Sheffield shilling showman sold sovereign tell thing THOMAS FROST tion Tom Maley took town travelling W. H. MALLOCK WALTER BESANT wife WILKIE COLLINS woman wont young fellow
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