sweetmeat-vendors

Updated: May 22, 2025

Here are millhands and other labourers returning from their daily labours, merchants faring home from their offices, beggars, hawkers, fruit-sellers and sweetmeat-vendors, while crowds enter the cookshops and sherbet shops, and groups of Arabs and others settle themselves for recreation on the threshold of the coffee-sellers' domain.

S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay