STREET MUSICIANS. 
p. XX. 
insane. They are not at all particular in their 
efforts to gain a living, and, when they have an 
opportunity, are quite as ready to thieve as to beg. 
They associate in gangs, and not unfrequently end 
their days on the scaffold. 
The aged, diseased, lame, and blind, form another 
large class, many of whom are really objects of 
pity. Some of these are like Lazarus of old, 
“ covered with sores ” of the most loathsome kind, 
in many instances artificial, in others natural, but 
brought on by their peculiar mode of life. Story- 
tellers, singers of poetry beating time on sticks or 
bones, and blind musicians playing on a kind 
of guitar, are all common objects in the streets. 
