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Title: Neighbors
Life Stories of the Other Half

Author: Jacob A. Riis

Release Date: May 25, 2010 [eBook #32534]

Language: English

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NEIGHBORS

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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

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[Illustration: "LITTLE LOUISA'S FINGERS WERE NIMBLER THAN HER MOTHER'S.
SHE WAS ONLY EIGHT, BUT SHE SOON LEARNED TO TIE A PLUME."]

NEIGHBORS

Life Stories of the Other Half

by

JACOB A. RIIS

Author of
"How the Other Half Lives," "The Making of
an American," "Children of the Tenements,"
"Hero Tales of the Far North," Etc.

New York
The Macmillan Company
1914
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1914,
By the Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1914. Reprinted
December, 1914.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

These stories have come to me from many sources--some from my own
experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records
of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with
vital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother so
that it