MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 97 



subsequently employed by Mr. Carnan and Mr. 

 Newbery, of St. Paul's Church Yard.* 



Having served my time as a kind of "Jack 

 of all trades/' I felt desirous to work amongst the 

 Cockneys, to see if I could find anything amongst 

 them ; but in this I was disappointed ; for I was 

 never permitted to see any of them at work. They, 

 indeed, seemed desirous of seeing what I was 

 doing, and occasionally peeped in upon me for 

 that purpose. I thought such of them as did so 

 were a most saucy, ignorant, and impudent set. 

 Wherever I went, the ignorant part of the 

 Cockneys called me " Scotchman." At this I was 

 not offended ; but, when they added other im- 

 pudent remarks, I could not endure them ; and this 

 often led me into quarrels of a kind I wished to 

 avoid, and had not been used to engage in. 



It is not worth while noticing these quarrels, 

 but only as they served to help out my dislike 

 to London. They were only trivial compared to 

 other matters. One of the first things that 

 struck me, and that constantly htirt my feel- 

 ings, was the seeing such a number of fine- 

 looking women engaged in the wretched business 

 of "street- walking." Of these I often enquired as 

 to the cause of their becoming so lost to them- 



[* Atkinson says, "Sketch of the late T. Bewick," 1831, that he 

 (Bewick) worked in London " with a person of the name of CoLE,' r 

 of whom, as a wood-engraver, Chatto could subsequently find no 

 trace. There were, however, two contemporary engravers on copper 

 of this name. One of them, B. Cole, executed most of the large 

 plates for Maitland's " London," and copied for the " Grand 

 Magazine of Magazines," 1759, the curious frontispiece designed 

 by Pope himself to the " Essay on Man." It is just possible that 

 Atkinson's Cole may be a mistake for William Coleman (see p. 60), 

 who obtained a prize for wood-engraving from the Society of Arts 

 in 1775, at the same time that Bewick received his seven-guinea 

 premium for the "Old Hound."] 



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