Produced by Janet Blenkinship and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) JERSEY STREET AND JERSEY LANE URBAN AND SUBURBAN SKETCHES BY H. C. BUNNER ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. FROST, B. WEST CLINEDINST, IRVING R. WILES AND KENNETH FRAZIER [Illustration: A TANGLED PATH] NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1896 COPYRIGHT, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York * * * * * TO A. L. B. * * * * * CONTENTS JERSEY AND MULBERRY 1 TIEMANN'S TO TUBBY HOOK 33 THE BOWERY AND BOHEMIA 67 THE STORY OF A PATH 99 THE LOST CHILD 135 A LETTER TO TOWN 175 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "_A tangled path_" FRONTISPIECE "_The old lady sat down and wrote that letter_" 6 "_Sometimes a woman with a shawl over her head * * * exchanges a few words with him_" 9 "_And down in the big, red chair big sister plunks little sister_" 12 "_Then there is Mamie, the pretty girl in the window_" 14 "_And plays on the Italian bagpipes_" 16 "_A Jewish sweater with coats on his shoulder_" 20 "_Glass-put-in man_" 21 "_Poor woman with market-basket_" 21 "_A Chinaman who stalks on with no expression at all_" 24 "_The children are dancing_" 25 "_The girl you loved was * * * really grown up and too old for you_" 36 "_A few of the old family estates were kept up after a fashion_" 40 "_A random goat of poverty_" 41 "_The paint works that had paid for its building_" 45 "_A mansion imposing still in spite of age_" 49 "_She wound the great, tall, white columns with these strips_" 53 "_Here also was a certain dell_" 57 "_The railroad embankment beyond which lay the pretty, blue Hudson_" 59 "_The wreck of the woods where I used to scramble_" 60 "_A little enclosure that is called a park_" 63 "_It was a very pretty young lady who opened the door_" 64 "_An old gentleman from Rondout-on-the-Hudson_" 70