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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1870. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... perhaps to the Father of the ends of the earth none the less tenderly for the economy, ) the "baby of the family." Thicket Street, at the time of my visit, had about the proportions, to say nothing of other qualities, of a drain-spout. The inelegance of the figure may be pardoned if the reader will bear in mind that I am not writing "a novel of high life." The alley, long and narrow, sloped over a slimy hill to the water. The sidewalk being a single foot-path only, there was generally a child under a wheel or a hoof; this may have accounted for the number of dwarfs, and gashed, twisted, "unpleasant bodies" which struck the stranger's eye. The alley, I noticed, was imperfectly guttered, if at all, and, in a storm, became the bed of a miniature torrent; in the best of weather the drainage from the high thoroughfares swept it. Certain old wharves at its mouth, from which the soft, green wood was constantly falling, were laden with -- I think it was codfish and whaleoil. One well at the foot of the slope supplied the street. There were two dead trees boxed tween eighteen and nineteen hundred souls. The accommodations varied from four persons to four families in a room. No. 19 was a very old house, shabby even amid the shabbiness; it was near the water, and much discolored, I observed, either by the saltness or the impurity of the harbor mists; the wood was crumbling about the sills of doors and windows, and rank moss notched the roof. Children swarmed on the steps and stairs; an old woman, with a childish leer, sat in a window picking rags; and a young woman, haggard and old, crouched on the pavement, sunning herself like an animal. I asked from the rag-picker the privilege of visiting the second front seaward corner room, and the gi...
| ISBN-13 | 9781151136367 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151136360 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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