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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
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