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Title: Jersey Street and Jersey Lane
Urban and Suburban Sketches

Author: H. C. Bunner

Illustrator: A. B. Frost
B. West Clinedinst
Irving R. Wiles
Kenneth Frazier

Release Date: May 24, 2007 [EBook #21597]

Language: English

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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

[Illustration: A TANGLED PATH]

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

* * * * *

TO

A. L. B.

* * * * *

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_"