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Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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o join in the Bank Holiday race to inducement, from inducement to com-parison in a rush of eloquence that mightwell be the despair of any orator of partypolitics. Take note of him on Saturday,his busiest day, when the naphtha lampsflare till midnight; and on Monday, hisoff day, when he goes sight-seeing and tak-ing the air. Rub shoulders with himwhen he slips off the yoke of barrow lifefor a bit, and has his play. No matterwhere you come across him, you will findhim turning a gay front to the world, and balancing is as necessary to success asfleetness of foot. Each man carries tenround market baskets upon his head fromthe starting to the winning post; or rath-er, I should say, he should do so. Forthe baskets do not always reach the goal.The chief difficulty is placing the basketsin position, first of all, as every man mustdo this for himself. Just before the dateyou will see the costers practicing basketrunning in the streets in which the guttermarkets are held, when business is a bit
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King of the Kerb 185 slack. The women take their part in thedays events, too, and have their own races.Some run in their ordinary holiday clothes,some in costume, according to individualtaste. You will always find that the wom-an, in Costerland, shares both the businessand the pleasures of the man. It is the buying and selling of beaststhat draws the coster in such numbers toNew Barnet Fair. For wherever there ishorse-flesh, or donkey-flesh, there, just assurely, the barrow-man will be found. NewBarnet Fair is one of his special gala times,and might almost be called the principalfestival of the costers year. After he hasbought or sold to his liking, and has madehis little deal in the live-stock sales, hegives himself up to gayety. Your costermakes his own amusement anywhere. Givehim a fair with shows, shooting galleries,and steam horses, as in this case, and hewill be boisterously happy, and get everyounce of enjoyment out of his spendings.Other folks call him rowdy. The truth is,he i

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