OF this body of street-traders there are descriptions, the itinerant and the "pitching." There are some also who unite the qualities, so far as that they move a short distance, perhaps yards, along a thoroughfare, but preserve the same locality.

Of the itinerant again, there are some who, on an evening, and more especially a Saturday evening, take a stand in a street-market, and pursue their regular "rounds" the other portions of the day.

The itinerant trader carries a tray, and in no few cases, as respects the "display" of his wares, emulates the tradesman's zeal in "dressing" a window temptingly. The tray most in use is painted, or mahogany, with "ledges," front and sides; or, as man described it, "an upright -inch bordering, to keep things in their places." The back of the tray, which rests against the bearer's breast, is about inches high. Narrow pink tapes are generally attached to the "ledges" and back, within which are "slipped" the articles for sale. At the bottom of the tray are often divisions, in which are deposited steel pens, wafers, wax, pencils, pen-holders, and, as stationer expressed it, "packable things that you can't get much show out of." man— who rather plumed himself on being a thorough master of his trade—said to me: "It's a grand point to display, sir. Now, just take it in this way. Suppose you yourself, sir, lived in my round. Werry good. You hear me cry as I'm a approaching your door, and suppose you was a customer, you says to yourself: 'Here's Penny-a-quire,' as I'm called oft enough. And I'll soon be with you, and I gives a extra emphasis at a customer's door. Werry good, you buys the note. you buys the note, you gives a look over my tray, and then you says, 'O, I want some steel pens, and is your ink good?' and you buys some. But for the 'display,' you'd have sent to the shopkeeper's, and I should have lost custom, 'cause it wouldn't have struck you."

The articles more regularly sold by the street-sellers of stationery are note-paper, letterpaper, envelopes, steel pens, pen-holders, sealing-wax, wafers, black-lead pencils, ink in stonebottles, memorandum-books, almanacks, and valentines. Occasionally, they sell Indiarubber, slate-pencil, slates, copy-books, storybooks, and arithmetical tables.

The stationery is purchased, for the most part, in and . The half-quires (sold at ) contain, generally, sheets; if the paper, however, be of superior quality, only sheets. In the paper-warehouses it is known as "outsides," with no more than sheets to the half-quire, the price varying from to the ream ( quires); or, if bought by weight, from to the pound. The envelopes are sold (wholesale) at from to the dozen; the higher-priced being adhesive, and with impressions—now, generally, the Crystal Palace—on the place of the seal. The commoner are retailed in the streets at , and the better at , a penny. Sometimes "a job-lot," soiled, is picked up by the street-stationer at a pound. The sealing, a pound, retailed at each; the "flat" wax, however, is per lb., containing from to sticks, retailed at each. Wafers (at the same swag shops) are or the lb.—in small boxes, the gross; ink, or the dozen bottles; pencils, to a gross; and steel pens from (waste) to a gross; but the street-stationers do not go beyond the gross, which is for magnum bonums.

[] I may here observe that I have rarely heard tradesmen dealing in the same wares as street-sellers, described by those street-sellers by any other term than that of "shopkeepers."