
On the streets of 19th-century London
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Singing Is the Easy Thing
Singing is the easiest thing because it doesn't require anything else. No one's going to pay you just for singing. You need a few pence to buy your songs from the printer and then sell it a profit. People can scrape a fewpence together by even picking up the bones of animals in the street, because the nineteenth century recycles everything. It's absolutely printntyou have this wonderful industry we think of. Can sell almost any item, however small, from getting watercress to lavender to to flowers. Flower sellers, this is a thing we understand all too well. We think only of eliza dolittle n in my fair lady, that's the
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