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172 KIRBYJS WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
on the east side of the Surrey Road. He forms altogether
a disgusting little figure, pushing himself about on a small
cart which moves upon wheels, and wearing an apron to con-
ceal the deformity of his legs, which are horrible in the ex-
treme. His whole height, including his cart, does not exceed
two feet. To avoid the penalties attached to begging and
vagrancy, he carries a few pens stuck between his coat and
waistcoat, and declares that the dealing in those articles is the
only trade to which he has been brought up.
It is not improbable, that by means of this, and other arts
and mysteries which he exercises, Andrew' has been enabled
to procure something more than salt to his porridge. From
the description that has been given of him no reader will sus-
pect that his person is calculated to excite the tender passion;
it must therefore be to the idea of his having accumulated
money that we are to attribute the following circumstance
A short time since Andrew began to think seriously of
taking unto himself a wife, and having looked round among
his female acquaintance for a desirable partner, he fixed his
choice on a Mrs. Marshall, the widow of a waterman, who
follows the trade of a retail dealer in fish, at the coiner of
Spiller’s public house, on that side of the Surrey Road which
he usually frequents. This fair lady, who might perhaps
have been dead as a roach to his addresses if he had had no-
thing but his deformed person to. offer, proved leaping alive
ho! at the thought of Andrew’s little hoard, of which she
hoped to become mistress. Several presents attested the
seriousness of the lover’s proposals, and his charmer was all
compliance to his wishes, till he had actually sent the money
to pay for publishing the banns at Christ Church, when the
ridicule of all hfir acquaintance urged her to abandon the
design of so preposterous a match.
on the east side of the Surrey Road. He forms altogether
a disgusting little figure, pushing himself about on a small
cart which moves upon wheels, and wearing an apron to con-
ceal the deformity of his legs, which are horrible in the ex-
treme. His whole height, including his cart, does not exceed
two feet. To avoid the penalties attached to begging and
vagrancy, he carries a few pens stuck between his coat and
waistcoat, and declares that the dealing in those articles is the
only trade to which he has been brought up.
It is not improbable, that by means of this, and other arts
and mysteries which he exercises, Andrew' has been enabled
to procure something more than salt to his porridge. From
the description that has been given of him no reader will sus-
pect that his person is calculated to excite the tender passion;
it must therefore be to the idea of his having accumulated
money that we are to attribute the following circumstance
A short time since Andrew began to think seriously of
taking unto himself a wife, and having looked round among
his female acquaintance for a desirable partner, he fixed his
choice on a Mrs. Marshall, the widow of a waterman, who
follows the trade of a retail dealer in fish, at the coiner of
Spiller’s public house, on that side of the Surrey Road which
he usually frequents. This fair lady, who might perhaps
have been dead as a roach to his addresses if he had had no-
thing but his deformed person to. offer, proved leaping alive
ho! at the thought of Andrew’s little hoard, of which she
hoped to become mistress. Several presents attested the
seriousness of the lover’s proposals, and his charmer was all
compliance to his wishes, till he had actually sent the money
to pay for publishing the banns at Christ Church, when the
ridicule of all hfir acquaintance urged her to abandon the
design of so preposterous a match.