TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: This e-text has been prepared in accordance with the Introduction’s explanation that the papers are presented _verbatim et literatim_, “word for word from copy”; all apparent errors are as printed in the original. CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: [Illustration] LONG-SONG SELLER. (_From a Daguerreotype by_ BEARD.) “Three yards a penny! Three yards a penny! Beautiful songs! Newest songs! Popular songs! Three yards a penny! Songs, songs, songs!” CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: COMPRISING “COCKS,” OR “CATCHPENNIES,” A LARGE AND CURIOUS ASSORTMENT OF STREET-DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC TALES IN PROSE AND VERSE, BROADSIDES ON THE ROYAL FAMILY, POLITICAL LITANIES, DIALOGUES, CATECHISMS, ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, STREET POLITICAL PAPERS, A VARIETY OF “BALLADS ON A SUBJECT,” DYING SPEECHES AND CONFESSIONS. TO WHICH IS ATTACHED THE ALL-IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY AFFECTIONATE COPY OF VERSES, AS “Come, all you feeling-hearted Christians, wherever you may be, Attention give to these few lines, and listen unto me; It’s of this cruel murder, to you I will unfold, The bare recital of the same will make your blood run cold.” “What hast here? ballads? I love a ballad in print, or a life; for then we are sure they are true.”--SHAKESPEARE. “There’s nothing beats a stunning good murder, after all.”--EXPERIENCE OF A RUNNING PATTERER. LONDON: REEVES AND TURNER, 196, STRAND. 1871. NOTICE. The “Execution Paper” of John Gregson, for the Murder of his Wife, at Liverpool--page 235 of CONTENTS--is CANCELLED, and Eight Pages, “THE HEROES OF THE GUILLOTINE,” supplied instead. 196, STRAND, _December 30th, 1870_. CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE. [Illustration: No. 126 _of the_ Fine TONED DEMY 4to EDITION. ONLY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED.] Purchased _by_ ______________________________________ _Of_ ____________________________________________ _On the_ __________ _day of_ ______________ 187 GUARANTEED ONLY FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX COPIES PRINTED, NAMELY,--