... a piece of cane, two feet in length, and having bent iron point at one extremity thereof, perambulated the streets Paris picking pieces of rag. in order to eke out the subs'stencw which his bravo little mother earn, d as a scavenger; and right years age ...

... foul—pig sties very commonly left j»ro trmjtore untenanted, because their usual inmates have been turned out prey upon the garbage of the neighbourhood— Conceive streets, and courts, and yards which a scavenger never appears to have entered since King John ...