_Rowlandson Delin. 1819._ "_Any Earthen Ware; buy a jug or a tea pot?_"] Any old flint glass or broken bottles for a poor woman to-day? [Illustration: "_Fresh Oysters! penny a lot!_"] Sweet primroses, four bunches a penny, primroses! Black and white heart cherries, twopence a pound, full weight, all round and sound! [Illustration: _Rowlandson Delin. 1819._ "_Buy my Sweet Roses?_"] Fine ripe duke cherries, a ha'penny a stick and a penny a stick, ripe duke cherries! Shrimps like prawns, a ha'penny a pot! Green hastings! [Illustration: "_Fine large Cucumbers!_"] Hot pudding! Pots and kettles to mend! 'Ere's yer toys for girls an' boys! Brick-dust was carried on the backs of asses and sold for knife-cleaning purposes at a penny a quart. [Illustration: "_'Ere's yer toys for girls an' boys!_"] The bellows-mender, who sometimes also followed the trade of a tinker, carried his tools and apparatus buckled in a leathern bag at his back, and practised his profession in any convenient corner of the street. Door-mats of all shapes were made of rushes or rope, and were sold at from sixpence to several shillings each. The earliest green pea brought to the London market--a dwarf variety--was distinguished by the name of Hasteds, Hastens, Hastins, or Hastings, and was succeeded by the Hotspur. The name of Hastings was, however, indiscriminately given to all peas sold in the streets, and the cry of "green Hastings" was heard in every street and alley until peas went out of season. The crier of hair brooms, who usually travelled with a cart, carried a supply of brushes, sieves, clothes-horses, lines, and general turnery. All cleanly folk must like my ware, For wood is sweet and clean; Time was when platters served Lord Mayor And, as I've heard, a Queen. His cry took the form of the traditional tune "Buy a broom," which may even now be occasionally heard--perhaps the last survival of a street trade tune--taken [Illustration: _Rowlandson Delin. 1819._ "_Curds and Whey!_"] up separately or in fitful chorus by the men and women of a travelling store. The Flemish "Buy a Broom" criers, whose trade is gone, generally went in couples or threes. Their figures are described by Hone as exactly miniatured in the unpainted wooden doll, shaped the same before and behind, and sold in the toy shops for the amusement of the little ones. In the comedy of "The Three Ladies of London," printed in quarto in Queen Elizabeth's reign (A.D. 1584), is this passage:-- "Enter Conscience with brooms at her back, singing as follows:-- New brooms, green brooms, will you buy any? Maydens come quickly, let me take a penny." Hot rolls, which were sold at one and two a penny, were carried during the summer months between the hours of 8 and 9 in the morning, and from 4 to 6 in the afternoon.