Descriptive Sketch, 
PURCHASES MADE ON THE STREET, KINGSTON. 
On hurrying round the corner of Harbour 
and King Streets, he ran into a trio of them. 
Further progress was impossible ; the babel 
started : — 
“Hi sah ! buy fe me nakelass (necklace). ” 
“ Bit (4-g-d) and fuppence (3d) fe dis.” 
“ Jippi Jappas, any ’ats fe de gentleman ?” 
He looked up and said “ Get out of my way 
you ngly little devils,” and they did. The 
mistake was theirs. This gentleman, hurry' 
ing to work, was not a tourist — they had been 
deceived for the moment by the hat and 
umbrella ! 
Better luck next time ! And this the little 
lads we are interested in had. A kindly party 
of four tourists, who had come ashore that 
morning from the mail steamer, soon after 
came that way. 
The daughter was the first to notice the 
curiosities. 
“ 0 mother ! I should like a necklace of 
those red beads with black spots ; no, I 
should prefer those ; and yet, these here are 
so pretty ; 0, but I never saw those large dull 
grey seeds. Mamma, dear, may I have these 
and those — and those — and those and 
