Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches — John Shaqi
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban SketchesBunner, H. C. (Henry Cuyler)
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Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches
Bunner, H. C. (Henry Cuyler)
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
"_Young gentlemen sitting in a pot-house at high noon_" 72
"_A gentleman permanently in temporary difficulties_" 74
"_A jackal is a man generally of good address_" 81
"_The Bowery is the most marvellous thoroughfare in the world_" 85
"_More and stranger wares than uptown people ever heard of_" 89
"_Probably the edibles are in the majority_" 91
"_The Polish Jews with their back-yards full of chickens_" 93
"_The Anarchist Russians_" 94
"_The Scandinavians of all sorts who come up from the wharfs_" 96
"_Through the rich man's country_" 108
"_A convenient way through the woods_" 112
"_The lonely old trapper who had dwelt on that mountain_" 114
"_Malvina Dodd * * * took the winding track that her husband
had laid out_" 118
"_Here the old man would sit down and wait_" 120
"_He did a little grading with a mattock_" 121
"_The laborers found it and took it_" 125
"_The tinkers * * * and the rest of the old-time gentry of
the road_" 128
"_I used to go down that path on the dead run_" 131
"_'I'm Latimer,' said the man on the horse_" 139
"_That boy of Penrhyn's--the little one with the yellow hair_" 143
"_Lanterns and hand lamps dimly lit up faces_" 149
"_The river, the river,--oh, my boy_!" 152
"_The father leaned forward and clutched the arms of his chair_" 155
"_They had just met after a long beat_" 164
"_Half a dozen men naked to the waist scrubbing themselves_" 167
"_The mother knew that her lost child was found_" 173
"_The desperate young men of the bachelor apartments_" 180
"_The hot, lifeless days of summer in your town house_" 183
"_'That's no Johnny-jumper!'_" 185
"_Other local troubles_" 189
"_You send for Pat Brannigan_" 192
"_A little plain strip of paper headed 'Memorandum of sale'_" 200
JERSEY AND MULBERRY
I found this letter and comment in an evening paper, some time ago, and
I cut the slip out and kept it for its cruelty:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING ----.
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