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garinda · 09-07-2010, 08:18

Came across this...

THE HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS,

From the Earliest Times to the Present Day.

BY JACOB LARWOOD, AND JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. 1866

'Lower down still in the sphere of callings and professions the signs will take us. At Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, we meet with the Tinker's Budget. The budget is the tinker's bag of instruments ; we see the word thus used in Handle Holme:* — "A Tinker with his budget on his back, having always in his mouth this merry cry : — ' Have you any work for a Tinker V " and Shakespeare, in the " Winter's Tale : —

"If tinkers may have leave to live And bear the sowskin bitdget,"

This inn, then, is certainly very modest in its pretensions.'

http://www.archive.org/stream/cu3192...96556_djvu.txt

09-07-2010, 08:18	#78
garinda Give, give, give member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Overlookin' ducks & geese Posts: 32,411 Blog Entries: 293 Liked: 27 times Rep Power: 16469	Re: Tinker & Budget Came across this... THE HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. BY JACOB LARWOOD, AND JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. 1866 'Lower down still in the sphere of callings and professions the signs will take us. At Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, we meet with the Tinker's Budget. The budget is the tinker's bag of instruments ; we see the word thus used in Handle Holme:* — "A Tinker with his budget on his back, having always in his mouth this merry cry : — ' Have you any work for a Tinker V " and Shakespeare, in the " Winter's Tale : — "If tinkers may have leave to live And bear the sowskin bitdget," This inn, then, is certainly very modest in its pretensions.' http://www.archive.org/stream/cu3192...96556_djvu.txt __________________ 'If you're going to be a Kant, be the very best Kant there is my son.' Johann Georg Kant, father of Immanuel Kant, philosopher.