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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Van Dwellers, by Albert Bigelow Paine This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home Author: Albert Bigelow Paine Release Date: February 17, 2009 [eBook #28101] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VAN DWELLERS*** E-text prepared by Annie McGuire from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28101-h.htm or 28101-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/1/0/28101/28101-h/28101-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/1/0/28101/28101-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/vandwellersstren00painiala THE VAN DWELLERS by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE [Illustration: "WELL, AND WHEN DID YEZ ORDER IT TURNED ON?"--_Frontispiece_.] THE VAN DWELLERS A Strenuous Quest for a Home by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Author of "The Bread Line" [Illustration] _"We were strangers and they took us in"_ New York J. F. Taylor & Company 1901 Copyright, 1901 by J. F. Taylor & Company _TO THOSE_ WHO HAVE LIVED IN FLATS _TO THOSE_ WHO ARE LIVING IN FLATS _AND TO THOSE_ WHO ARE THINKING OF LIVING IN FLATS Contents. PAGE I. The First Home in the Metropolis. 1 II. Metropolitan Beginnings. 13 III. Learning by Experience. 28 IV. Our First Move. 45 V. A Boarding House for a Change. 60 VI. Pursuing the Ideal. 72 VII. Owed to the Moving Man. 86 VIII. Household Retainers. 88 IX. Ann 104 X. A "Flat" Failure. 114 XI. Inheritance and Mania. 133 XII.
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