Produced by KD Weeks, ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. FOUR YEARS IN THE UNDERBRUSH FOUR YEARS IN THE UNDERBRUSH ADVENTURES AS A WORKING WOMAN IN NEW YORK [Illustration: colophon] NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1921 COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS --- Published October, 1921 PRINTED AT THE SCRIBNER PRESS NEW YORK, U. S. A. =To= SISTER WEE WEE TAMPA, FLORIDA March 8th, 1921 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. FOR POLLY PRESTON’S SAKE 3 II. MY FIRST STEPS IN THE UNDERBRUSH 11 III. SLIMY THINGS THAT WALK ON LEGS 24 IV. AGAINST A RUSH OF THE HERD 37 V. HUMAN COOTIES 51 VI. GOOD HUNTING-GROUND 77 VII. FEMALES OF THE SPECIES 86 VIII. ST. ROSE’S HOME FOR GIRLS 101 IX. RODMAN HALL: CHILDREN’S HOME 114 X. TRUSTED WITH BILLIONS, PAID IN MILLS 129 XI. I AM SICK IN THE UNDERBRUSH 143 XII. JACKALS FIGHT TO KEEP FROM FIGHTING 157 XIII. “MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE” 174 XIV. STAMPING-GROUND OF THE MONKEY-PEOPLE 185 XV. THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE 201 XVI. BURROWING IN 207