A Story of Bleecker Street 13 The Kid hangs up His Stocking 21 The Slipper-maker's Fast 28 Death comes to Cat Alley 31 A Proposal on the Elevated 35 Little Will's Message 41 Lost Children 53 Paolo's Awakening 63 The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey 78 The Kid 93 When the Letter Came 96 The Cat took the Kosher Meat 100 Nibsy's Christmas 104 In the Children's Hospital 117 Nigger Martha's Wake 126 What the Christmas Sun saw in the Tenements 133 Midwinter in New York 150 A Chip from the Maelstrom 173 Sarah Joyce's Husbands 177 Merry Christmas in the Tenements 180 Abe's Game of Jacks 222 A Little Picture 226 A Dream of the Woods 228 'Twas 'Liza's Doings 234 Heroes who Fight Fire 247 John Gavin, Misfit 284 A Heathen Baby 289 The Christening in Bottle Alley 294 In the Mulberry Street Court 299 Difficulties of a Deacon 302 Fire in the Barracks 310 War on the Goats 313 He kept His Tryst 319 Rover's Last Fight 323 How Jim went to the War 330 A Backwoods Hero 341 Jack's Sermon 347 Skippy of Scrabble Alley 357 Making a Way out of the Slum 365 CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS THE RENT BABY