121

"_The laborers found it and took it_" 125

"_The tinkers * * * and the rest of the old-time gentry of
the road_" 128

"_I used to go down that path on the dead run_" 131

"_'I'm Latimer,' said the man on the horse_" 139

"_That boy of Penrhyn's--the little one with the yellow hair_" 143

"_Lanterns and hand lamps dimly lit up faces_" 149

"_The river, the river,--oh, my boy_!" 152

"_The father leaned forward and clutched the arms of his chair_" 155

"_They had just met after a long beat_" 164

"_Half a dozen men naked to the waist scrubbing themselves_" 167

"_The mother knew that her lost child was found_" 173

"_The desperate young men of the bachelor apartments_" 180

"_The hot, lifeless days of summer in your town house_" 183

"_'That's no Johnny-jumper!'_" 185

"_Other local troubles_" 189

"_You send for Pat Brannigan_" 192

"_A little plain strip of paper headed 'Memorandum of sale'_" 200

JERSEY AND MULBERRY

I found this letter and comment in an evening paper, some time ago, and
I cut the slip out and kept it for its cruelty:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING ----.

SIR: In yesterday's issue you took occasion to speak of the
organ-grinding nuisance, about which I hope you will let me ask you
the following questions: Why must decent people all over town
suffer these pestilential beggars to go about torturing our senses,
and practically blackmailing the listeners into paying them to go
away? Is it not a most ridiculous excuse on the part of the police,
when ordered to arrest these vagrants, to tell a citizen that the
city license exempts these public nuisances from arrest? Let me
ask, Can the city by any means legalize a common-law misdemeanor?
If not, how can the city authorities grant exemption to these
sturdy beggars and vagrants by their paying for a license? The
Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, it seems, provide
for the punishment of gamblers, dive-keepers, and other disorderly