THE MARGATE HOY. 



were so unguarded as not to profess to care a curse for the ultimate un- 

 happy application of their " oils," even if their customers became as 

 bald as a new-tinned saucepan through their use. 



Here again, holding the " fluid hair-conservators" in withering con- 

 tempt, ranged the " lump and retail " inflicters of solid animal fat. 

 Had Prince or Atkinson been there, they would, amongst the less 

 lights, have ranked as the ursa major of the tribe. 



" Velut inter ignes Luna minores." 



How would they have exposed the base and " un-geriuine " practice of 

 exhibiting an old, fat, Scotch ram's hind-quarter, duly " fettled," in the 

 window, with the " affiche," 



fCfF A Bear has been killed here to-day !" 



Reader, the venerable subject has had his inquest pronounced 

 " Died from over-driving." He had been intended, barring this acci- 

 dent, for exhibition in the shambles, as three-year-old wether mutton ; 

 a section of him is now transmuted into the quarter of a bear ; his re- 

 mainder is now mincing, or has been minced, in a private pork- 

 butchers : already is the larger proportion of him converted into pork 

 sausages. This hind-quarter, when it becomes too offensive for the 

 perfumer's window, will follow the rest of the carcase to the sausage 

 shop its ' ' hire " being duly paid. 



Now, on the other hand, the " really genuine " importers and ex- 

 porters of this hair- compelling trade, exhibit to their customers the 

 " living bear," under that due state of obesity requisite for supplying 

 the " unexampled demand " upon them. In these cases, a splendid 

 index announces, 



A Bear will be killed to-day, at 12 o'clock." 



Here are none of your lying participles-past ; in the future there is 

 every thing to hope. Thus the avenues to fraud and " un-genuineness" 

 are completely guarded. No customer of common sense can hesitate a 

 moment in the choice of his tradesman. 



Looking forward, in the group we distinguish a host, composed of 

 lawyers, potatoe and cabbage-merchants, tinkers, fixed and locomotive, 

 dentists and farriers, debiteurs of those inviting luxuries, Indian-rock, 

 bull's-eyes, and hard-bake ; retailers and detailers of blacking and 

 poetry, from the Parnassus-sprung " Warren," to the humbler penny- 

 paste-peripatetic. 



Again, we have " Italian oil sellers," and Italian image sellers, green- 

 grocers, and brown-grocers, master tailors and drapers " inclusive," 

 master tailors <f exclusive " with infinite gradations of this latter pro- 

 fession, down to the stepping-stone, the apprentice, or assistant youth 

 of the " Mendin dun neetly hear." 



There is a faint and "goosy" smell elaborated from the exhalents of 

 this gradus of the craft, which I consider strictly pathognomic of their 

 calling. Not so easily describable is the aristocratic master tailor, or 

 (many pardons for the ignorance of my expression) the army-clothiers : 

 he of the cab and blood-horse, liveried groom, and ultra-fashioned in- 

 vestmenthe, the classical rival in scientific knowledge of the gradu- 

 ates in the learned professions: he who has indignantly kicked down 

 the fanciful and feeble fence, which erst separated the sciences of human 



