Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:16:39 -0600

From: Katherine Catmull kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BGA.COM

Subject: Re: "street arab"



On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, BARBARA HILL HUDSON wrote:



In reference to the term "street arab":



I know that in Baltimore, MD the men who sell produce and sometimes fish from

horse drawn carriages were called street arabs (pronounced with a initial long

a).





I recenty came across the term in Salman Rushdies's Midnight's Children,

so perhaps it's originally a British term.



Or perhaps I should just look it up.



Kate Catmull kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bga.com