He complained that the cheap gutta percha shoes were hurting his trade.

He said a pair of men's gutta percha shoes could be bought for 5s.6d., whilst it would cost him 7s.6d.for the materials alone to make a pair of men's shoes of.

When the rain was over, we left his house, and as we went along I saw in a cottage window a printed paper containing these words, "Bitter beer.

This beer is made of herbs and roots of the native country." I know that there are many poor people yet in Lancashire who use decoctions of herbs instead of tea--mint and balm are the favourite herbs for this purpose; but I could not imagine what this herb beer could be, at a halfpenny a bottle, unless it was made of nettles.

At the cottage door there was about four-pennyworth of mauled garden stuff upon an old tray.