Excerpt from In Bad Hands, Vol. 1 of 3: And Other Tales Marsh Walk was the highway of the poorest poor - and the shopkeepers were, as a rule, very poor too, to match their customers. Names were always changing over the shop-fronts in Marsh Walk, and only the publicans and pawn brokers were old established and waxed fat on people's thirst or people's troubles. One of the poorest Shops in this neighbourhood to which we direct our reader's attention was Mr. Broadbrook's - and it was always a matter of grave speculation how Mr. Broadbrook lived and kept house and home together on easy shaving at a half-penny and gents and ladies hair cut at three-pence, ' or, cut and curled for the sum of fourpence, paid in advance, to save unnecessary disputes, or the fatigue of Opening credit accounts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.