THE GREAT ARMY
OF
LONDON POOR

SKETCHES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER IN A THAMES-SIDE DISTRICT

BY THE RIVER-SIDE VISITOR.

"STILL, let it ever be thy pride
To linger by the labourer's side,
With words of sympathy or song
To cheer the dreary march along
Of the great army of the poor."
                                  LONGFELLOW

London :
PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS.
T. WOOLMER, 2, CASTLE STREET, CITY ROAD, E.C.;
AND 66, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

Preface
Chapter 1 - Captain Rust
Chapter 2 - Fairy Armstrong
Chapter 3 - Button-Hole Row
Chapter 4 - Bible Braidy
Chapter 5 - The Sugar-Bags Defence Fund
Chapter 6 - Grass-Widows' Alley
Chapter 7 - Old Fend-Off
Chapter 8 - An Evening with Old Bible
Chapter 9 - The Button-Hole Queen
Chapter 10 - Shiny Smith
Chapter 11 - Gutter Children
Chapter 12 - "Cough No More"
Chapter 13 - "Tough-Un"
Chapter 14 - "Buy-'Em-of-the-Grower"
Chapter 15 - "The Rasper"
Chapter 16 - "The Genuine Minder"
Chapter 17 - Duke Soap-Suds the Second
Chapter 18 - Buckle-To
Chapter 19 - "Penny Plain" and Friend