sj | ||
|
User Name | Thread Name | Subject | Posted |
The Doctor | Songs about chimney climbing boys (9) | RE: Songs about chimney climbing boys | 28 Jan 23 |
As an aside, Jack Hall, a real person, also known as Sam Hall - chimney sweep, chimney sweep, was sold to a chimney sweep by his parents, for a pound or thereabouts. But he quickly decided that being a thief was a much more profitable, and safer, profession, even if he did end up being hanged. While waiting in prison for his end he wrote a dictionary of cant and criminal slang, and now appears in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |