Worcestershyr salt! Ripe damsons! Buy any marking stoēs? The Bear bayting. Buy any blew starch? Buy any points? New Hadog! Yards and Ells! Buy a fyne brush? Hote mutton poys! New sprats new! New cod new! Buy any reasons? P. and glasses to mend The public "Cryer" on the third sheet, who bears a staff and keys, humorously speaks as follows: "O yis, any man or woman that Can tell any tydings of a little Mayden childe of the age of 24 Yeares. Bring worde to the Cryer And you shal be pleased for Your labor, And God's blessinge." Then follow: Buy any wheat? Buy al my smelts? Quick periwinckels! Rype chesnuts! Payres fyn! White redish whyt! Buy any whyting? Buy any bone lays? I ha rype straberies! Buy a case for a hat? Birds and hens! Hote podding pyes! Buy a hair line? Buy any pompcons? Whyt scalions! Rype walnuts! [Illustration: "_Songs, penny a sheet!_"] Fyne potatos fyn! Hote eele pyes! Fresh cheese and creame? Buy any garlick? Buy a longe brush? Whyt carots whyt! Fyne pomgranats! Buy any Russes? Hats or caps to dress? Wood to cleave? Pins of the Maker! Any sciruy gras? Any cornes to pick? Buy any parsnips? Hot codlinges hot! Buy all my soales? Good morrow m. Buy any cocumber? New thornebacke! Fyne oate cakes! From all this it will be seen that merchandise of almost every description was formerly "carried and cried" in the streets. When shops were little more than open shanties, the apprentice's cry of "What d'ye lack, what d'ye lack, my masters?" was often accompanied by a running description of the goods on sale, together with personal remarks, complimentary or otherwise, to likely and unlikely buyers.