costermongery

Updated: May 19, 2025

In the course of these last few months of active costermongery, of transactions in early peas and new potatoes, spring-cabbage and ripe strawberries, he had acquired not only an insight into commerce but apparently an intimate knowledge of every street in London, and a very fair acquaintance with its celebrities; meaning thereby its real celebrities its sportsmen, patrons of the Prize Ring, cricketers, rowing-men, billiard-players, jockeys what not?

William Frend De Morgan - When Ghost Meets Ghost