"_Oh, the air is pure and wholesome where some babies coo and rest, and they trim them out with ribbons, and they feed them with the best_" 55 "_Weary old man with the snow-drifted hair, not by your fault are you suffering there_" 59 "_Is't the same girl that stood, one night, there in the wide hall's thrilling light?_" 65 "_And hateful hunger has come in_" 69 "_He begged that horse's pardon upon his bended knees_" 80 "_Away he rushed like a cyclone for the head o'_ '_Number Three_'" 82 "_Laid down in his harness_" 83 _How we Fought the Fire_ 87 "_Battered and bruised, forever abused, he lay by the moaning sea_" 99 "_Miss Sunnyhopes she waded out_" 108 "_Two inland noodles, for our first acquaintance with the sea_" 109 "_A-floating on her dainty back_" 110 "_I tried to kick this_ '_lovely wave_'" 110 "_Heels over head--all in a bunch!_" 111 "_We voted that we'd had enough_" 111 "_To make four hundred dollars clear, an' help the children too_" 121 "_We come 'thin part of one of it_" 123 "_They_ '_put their heads together_' _in a new an' painful way_" 127 "_He makes himself a bigger fool than all the fools he makes_" 129 _The Salvation Army_ 140 _The March of the Children_ 141, 142 _From the Monument_ 149 "_And he stood there, like a colonel, with her trembling on his arm_" 159 _Chasing the Bicycle_ 163 "_Only a box, secure and strong, rough and wooden, and six feet long_" 167 "_And carry back, from out our plenteous store, enough to keep himself a fortnight more_" 172 "_The hungry city children are coming here to-night_" 173 "_He heard its soft tones through the cottages creep, from fond mothers singing their babies to sleep_" 177 CITY BALLADS. [Illustration] WEALTH. [_From Arthur Selwyn's Note-book._]