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Jersey Street and Jersey Lane, by H. C. Bunner

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Title: Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
Author: H. C. Bunner
Illustrator: A. B. Frost B. West Clinedinst Irving R. Wiles Kenneth Frazier
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Language: English
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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
"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 ----.
SIR: In yesterday's issue you took occasion to speak of the organ-grinding nuisance, about which I hope you will let me ask you the following questions: Why must decent people all over town suffer these pestilential beggars to go about torturing our senses, and practically blackmailing the listeners into paying them to go away? Is it not a most ridiculous excuse on the part of the police, when ordered to arrest these vagrants, to tell a citizen that the city license exempts these