“The Child in the Budget”
Description
Tinkers, out drinking, exhaust their funds. One puts his baby in his tool bag and pawns the bag. When the baby cries the pawnbroker laughs at being outwitted, finds the tinker, and gives him a pound to take back the toolbag and contents.
Notes
Notes to IRClare01: "A budget is a bag or knapsack used for carrying tools." - BS
Cross references
- cf. "The Basket of Eggs" (baby in the basket motif)
- cf. "Quare Bungo Rye" (baby in the basket motif)
Broadsides
- Bodleian, Firth b.26(340), "The Tinker and His Budget ("Come all you good people attend for awhile"), H. Such (London), 1863-1885; also Firth b.27(85), "The Tinkers Budget" or "Pawnbroker Outwitted"
Recordings
- Martin Long, "The Child in the Budget" (on IRClare01)
References
- Roud #2993
- BI, RcTCitB