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Mary Ann Smith was an English knocker-upper who worked in London from the 1900s to the 1930s. She used a pea shooter and dried peas as her implements for waking clients, charging each client sixpence a week. Her tool was unusual for the time, as most knocker-uppers had a pole with wire on the end that was used to scratch at windows. Her customers included the dock workers who lived in the East End of London, and she was known for waking hundreds of people every morning during the work week.
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