e and hid in secret--
Horrible for to relate.
The head and limbs had been divided--
Where parts was taken no one knows;
In a carpet bag they packed the body,
Over Waterloo bridge they did it throw.

"It is supposed that a female monster
Her victim's body onward dragged,
With no companion to assist her,
All packed within a carpet bag.
Justice determined is to take her,
When without doubt she'll punished be,
The atrocious female Greenacre
Of the Waterloo Bridge Tragedy."

The reader will see from these specimens how alien the costermonger race
is in sympathy and life from the respectable and the well-to-do. Their
songs are not ours, nor their aims nor conventional observances. What
wonder is it that they leave their wretched cellars all dirt and
darkness, and crowd round the public-house; or that at the costermongers'
house of call--in the midst of an atmosphere of gin and tobacco-smoke,
and under the influence of songs of very questionable merit--the poor
lads receive the education which is to stamp their character and to teach
them to grow up Ishmaelites, with their hands against every one, and
every one's hand against them. Society will not educate its poor; wonder
not then that they educate themselves, and that after a fashion not very
desirable in the eyes of the friends of morality, of order, and of law.

THE POLICE-COURT

Is an attractive lounge to the seedy, the disreputable, the unwashed.
Evidently it is a grand and refreshing and popular sight to see justice
doled out in small parcels--to see the righteous flourish, and the wicked
put to shame. I fear, however, it is a feeling of a more personal nature
that is the chief attraction, after all. Jones goes to see what a mess
Davis gets into; Smithes to see if Scroggins keeps "mum" like a brick;
the many, to retail a little scandal at the expense of their
neighbours,--if at the expense of a friend, of course so much the better.
A little before ten a crowd is ranged round the police-office, waiting to
see the prisoners, who have been locked up all night, marched into the
court, which generally commences its operations at ten. The court itself
offers very little accommodation to the most thinking public. At one end
of the room is the presiding magistrate; below him is the clerk; on the
right of the magistrate is the box for complainant and witnesses.
Opposite him is the doc