Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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s hand and foot, in token ofplenty. Within an ornamental border belowmay be read the inscription : When ye have sought the citty round,Yet still this is the highest ground. August the 27, 1688. This sign, though evidently placed in this nar-row passage between Paternoster Row and New-gate Street after the Great Fire, doubtless rep-resents an earlier sign. From Liber Albus,which treats of the thirteenth and fourteenthcenturies, we learn that the sale of bread in those days wasnot allowed totake place inthe houses ofbakers them-selves, but onlyin the kingsmarkets. It wassold on thestreet in bas-kets, or pan-niers. Fromthis it is likelythat Panyer Al-ley was notedas a standing-place for bakers boys with their panniers. Thispoor little stone boy with his bunch of grapesand his bread is located in the east side of thealley, so built into the wall that it would not bepossible to remove the image without destroy-ing the wall. It is now boarded up. Romance, heroism, genius, philanthropy gath-
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HE IRINCE OF WALES FEATHEKS. 166 THE SIGNS OF OLD LONDON. ered about Gresham and his grasshopper; a likequartet of virtues and adornments, and manymore, cluster about Sir Richard Whittingtonand his cat. The story and adventure of thisbrave, beautiful boy has enriched nursery loreand become the model for more legends thanthe traditional lives of the catassociated with his name. A poor boy, orphaned, hetrudged to London behind amarket-wagon, having beentold the streets were pavedwith gold. There he slept onthe pavement, at last was takenin as a service-boy by a richmerchant, slept in a garretwhich was overrun with rats,earned a penny blacking boots,with which he bought a cat,which shared with him his mis-erable quarters, but not thefierce scoldings of the cook.The merchant was about tosend a trading-ship to sea, whenhe called his servants and toldthem that if they possessed any-thing they might share with himthe benefits of barter. PoorDick had nothing but his cat;they scoffed at him, b

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