2056.—Pots to Mend.details

If we do not so often as of old hear the cry of “Pots to mend!” (Fig. 26056), and if the tinker has ceased to be the popular personage he once was, the fraternity has not yet wholly gone out; his utility has preserved him. The absence of utility, or we may rather say, positive mischievousness, has caused the disappearance of other street-trading classes [...] (p. 211)