Diddler [noun]

Diddler's face wears the most gratified smile possible to be produced without teeth.

The diddler approaches the bar of a tavern, and demands a couple of twists of tobacco.

The brandy and water is furnished and imbibed, and the diddler makes his way to the door.

"They keep the finest Port here you ever tasted," says the Diddler.

Cities are the only fields subservient to the successful practice of a respectable Diddler.

There are but two ways about it—take to the highway, or become a Diddler—a sponge—and, like woodcock, live on "suction."

Diddler is derived from the word diddle, to do—every body who has not yet made his debut to the Elephant.

Many's the Diddler who's passed a whole season thus, dead-heading it on the steamers of the Crescent City.

A diddler may thus be regarded as a banker in petto—a "financial operation," as a diddle at Brobdignag.

Some grumble but all submit, and the diddler goes home a wealthier man by some fifty or sixty dollars well earned.