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Updated: June 7, 2025
Should the boy hesitate to ascend, many of the master-sweeps had no compunction in giving him what was termed a "tickler" that is, in lighting some straw in the grate below him. The poor little urchin had perforce to scramble up his chimney then, to avoid being roasted alive. It will be remembered that little Tom, the hero of Charles Kingsley's delightful Water-Babies, was a climbing-sweep.
Cards were issued a week before to the master-sweeps in and about the metropolis, confining the invitation to their younger fry. Now and then an elderly stripling would get in among us, and be good-naturedly winked at; but our main body were infantry.
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