"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
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane · The Wunder Library — complete classics, free to read, with narration.