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July 18, 1848
The Daily Crescent
New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana
What is this article about?
Descriptions of two beggar tricks in London streets: a man scatters and devours bread crumbs to solicit charity from passersby, and a 13-year-old girl drops her match boxes, slowly picking them up to evoke pity and receive overpayment.
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The Tricks of Beggars.
There is a hungry looking man, who prowls about the streets with bread crumbs in his hands. He watches his opportunity. Upon seeing respectable, charitable-looking people, he flings down the morsels before them, far in advance, and then manages to be picking up the food, and devouring it with an assumed voracity, just as the people pass. Ten to one but he gets a sixpence for his performance.
Again, a girl, of about thirteen years, with half a dozen half-penny boxes of lucifer matches about the most dirty part of it, she lets fall her wares. The matches are strewed about and falls to work deliberately picking up, one by one, the scattered matches. The passers-by, to whom she does not even cast a glance, say, "Poor thing!" and many of them give more than three times the value of her matches. This industrious young lady has been sent to repeat her profitable performance three times in one day.
—London paper.
There is a hungry looking man, who prowls about the streets with bread crumbs in his hands. He watches his opportunity. Upon seeing respectable, charitable-looking people, he flings down the morsels before them, far in advance, and then manages to be picking up the food, and devouring it with an assumed voracity, just as the people pass. Ten to one but he gets a sixpence for his performance.
Again, a girl, of about thirteen years, with half a dozen half-penny boxes of lucifer matches about the most dirty part of it, she lets fall her wares. The matches are strewed about and falls to work deliberately picking up, one by one, the scattered matches. The passers-by, to whom she does not even cast a glance, say, "Poor thing!" and many of them give more than three times the value of her matches. This industrious young lady has been sent to repeat her profitable performance three times in one day.
—London paper.
What sub-type of article is it?
Deception Fraud
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Deception
What keywords are associated?
Beggars Tricks
Street Deception
Charity Fraud
Lucifer Matches
Voracious Eating
What entities or persons were involved?
Hungry Looking Man
Girl Of About Thirteen Years
Where did it happen?
London Streets
Story Details
Key Persons
Hungry Looking Man
Girl Of About Thirteen Years
Location
London Streets
Story Details
A man prowls streets scattering and devouring bread crumbs voraciously before charitable passersby to receive sixpence. A girl drops her lucifer matches in dirty areas, slowly picks them up without glancing at passersby who pity her and overpay, repeating the act three times daily.