Talk:The Heart/Quotes/@comment-3000198-20121214081132

"A mug lark for hire, sifting through the filth, until he could use a knife."

Shouldn't the second and third words be "mudlark"? That was the old name for the beggars that scavenged the mud banks on the Thames River in London. People used to throw pennies from the bridges and watch the boys dive into the filthy mud to retrieve them.