Produced by Irma Spehar, Janet Blenkinship 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.) TIN-TYPES TAKEN IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK _A SERIES OF STORIES AND SKETCHES PORTRAYING MANY SINGULAR PHASES OF METROPOLITAN LIFE_ BY LEMUEL ELY QUIGG _With Fifty-three Illustrations by Harry Beard_ NEW YORK: CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY 104 & 106 FOURTH AVENUE COPYRIGHT, 1890, By O. M. DUNHAM, _All rights reserved._ Press W. L. Mershon & Co., Rahway, N. J. CONTENTS. PAGE I. MR. RICKETTY, 1 II. MR. JAYRES, 20 III. BLUDOFFSKI, 43 IV. MAGGIE, 65 V. THE HON. DOYLE O'MEAGHER, 87 VI. THE SAME (_concluded_), 107 VII. MR. GALLIVANT, 126 VIII. TULITZ, 148 IX. MR. MCCAFFERTY, 170 X. MR. MADDLEDOCK, 189 XI. MR. WRANGLER, 211 XII. MR. CINCH, 242 XIII. GRANDMOTHER CRUNCHER, 271 TIN-TYPES. I. MR. RICKETTY. Mr. Ricketty is composed of angles. From his high silk hat worn into dulness, through his black frock coat worn into brightness, along each leg of his broad-checked trowsers worn into rustiness, down into his flat, multi-patched boots, he is a long series of unrelieved angles. Tipped on the back of his head, but well down over it, he wears an antique high hat, which has assumed that patient, resigned expression occasionally to be observed in the face of some venerable mule, which, having long and hopelessly struggled to free herself of a despicable bondage, at last bows submissively to the inevitable and trudges bravely on till she dies in her tracks. Everything about Mr. Ricketty, indeed, appears to have an individual expression. His heavily lined, indented brow comes out in a sharp angle over his snappy black eyes, which, sunk far within their sockets, look just like black beans in an elsewise empty eggshell. His nose is sharp, thin, pendent, and exceedingly ample in its proportions, and it comes inquiringly out from his face as if employed by the rest of his features as a sort of picket sentinel.