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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

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

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A. L. B.

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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