Stick seller, Cries of London mb-code 1238924 The accident was caused when

The accident was caused when the Fleet Ditch burst and destroyed part of the Metropolitan Railway

scans the pieces and says Confound him

carrying a large basket of books

An old man stands at the door of a brothel at the corner of Portland Street

Stick seller, Cries of London mb-code 1238924 The accident was caused whenStick seller, 1760. A ragged stick seller and two background views; to the left a woman is holding a stick over her kneeling husband and twisting his nose, and to the right a husband is beating his wife with a stick he has presumably just purchased from the stick seller. The text below suggests wife beating and clothes cleaning as two uses of the stick. From Cries of London, 1760.