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Title: The Van Dwellers
A Strenuous Quest for a Home

Author: Albert Bigelow Paine

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Language: English

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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.