Door To Door Collectors

Door To Door Collectors 

By Paul McCann 

The people who came with a knock on the door collecting money as they went past like the men’s confraternity collecting  the envelopes , on Sunday after mass .

Mr O’Hara who collected life insurance as he went from door to door or the man who sold shoe laces and matches and always looked like he was half tore .

The milkman called on friday night to collect the money for the week that had been , so did the  boy from the cubs who run the pools with pre-picked numbers no one had seen.

There were many who came a knocking , like the tick man 

and the thruppenny bit 

man  , the rent men , others asking for for donations for you  to give as much as you can .

Beggars and other  people who lived on the streets, school building funds , lemonade men , coal men , the bread man and tinkers looking for odd jobs , that’s just how it was back then .

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