JEREMY DIDDLERS.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 163, 27 October 1883, Page 3

JEREMY DIDDLERS.

Abusinessman advertised the other day for canvassers, and upwards of a dozen candidates applied for the billet. One was engaged, who, two hours later, was observed walking about Queen-street with a dirty pipe in his mouth. Another canvasser who was put on the work appeared to be exceedingly sanguine, but when asked to try Newmarket as a field of operations pointed to his dilapidated boots, and remarked, with a conscious blush, that he doubted whether they would stand the journey. The employer, out of the kindness of his heart, gave the man an order upon a bootmaker for a pair of boots, which he obtained. He was then missing for a week, but turned up suddenly with an order for one of the articles which formed the subject of the canvas. He begged permission to retain the samples, and was missing for another ten days. Then a letter was written to him requesting a return of the samples, and asking him to square acoounts for those boots. That fetched him, but it did not fetch the money for the boots. This is a sample of the good-for-nothing people, who roam about like a well-known character described 'in a certain old book, " seeking whom he (or they) may devour."