 | SOLON ROBINSON - 1854 - 436 pages
...for rum. The reader has seen him before. "Would you like to know where? Turn back to page 30—look at that picture of the fireman rescuing two children...situation now for a little girl than midnight street rambling; that is not the best school for young girls—we have seen how near the brink of ruin it... | |
 | Solon Robinson - New York (N.Y.) - 1854 - 428 pages
...CHAPTEE IL* LITTLE KATY. A MIDNIGHT INTERVIEW. What is said in this, will apply to everything similar. " Here's your nice Hot Corn, smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot !" Hour after hour one evening, as I sat over the desk, this cry came up in a soft, plaintive voice,... | |
 | Irving Lewis Allen - Social Science - 1995 - 320 pages
...in city streets. A moral tract of 1 8 5 4 described Katy, a hot-corn girl in the Five Points, crying "Hot corn! here's your nice hot corn — smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot!" A more elaborate "song" of the hot-corn girl went Hot corn! Hot corn! Here's your lily white corn.... | |
 | Hans Bergmann - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 276 pages
...Robinson describes an evening he spent at work at his desk, hearing now and then the familiar street cry: "Here's your nice Hot Corn, smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot!" At midnight, deciding to clear his mind with a walk in the park, Robinson encounters the crier and,... | |
 | Ethics - 1853 - 204 pages
...or otherwise, 16. Number of adults now in the Institution, 10. Children, 72. • From tho Tribune. HOT CORN! " Hot corn ! here's your nice Hot Corn, smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot!'' Hour after hour last evening as we sat uver the desk, this cry came up in a soft, plaintive voice under... | |
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Hot corn, hot corn, here's your nice hot corn, smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot, all hot, hot, hot! 