london mud lark scrounging rubbish from the mudflats

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a London mud-lark scrounging rubbish from the mudflats

Engraving of a so-called London mud-lark commonly used found in London during the Victorian era scrounging rubbish from the mudflats of the Thames River. From an original engraving in the Harper`s Story Books by Jacob Abbott, 1854.