Old Edinburgh Cries.
Twenty year/ ago there used to be heard in Edinburgh the shrill cry of a peripatetic china-cement merchant. 11 Chee-yine-a-a-a t'mend," he said but the word " China " was so long drawn out as to use up nearly all the breath in the old man's lungs, so that the " t'mend " at the end of his call had been delayed a second longer he would assuredly have burst a blood-vessel-Another call, which might have been heard a good many years ago, but which is silent now I think, was " She-ep-seed-spluckscum-awa." It may seem unintelligible in print, and indeed, to many it sounded like a foreign tongue, but the initiated knew it to mean " Sheeps'-heidg, plucks, come awa," these articles * forming the stock in trade of the " vendor.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1892, Page 3
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128Old Edinburgh Cries. Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1892, Page 3
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