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Children of the Tenements

by Jacob A. Riis

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Children of the Tenements
  3. 3A Story of Bleecker Street
  4. 4The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking
  5. 5The Slipper-maker’s Fast
  6. 6Death Comes to Cat Alley
  7. 7A Proposal on the Elevated
  8. 8Little Will’s Message
  9. 9Lost Children
  10. 10Paolo’s Awakening
  11. 11The Little Dollar’s Christmas Journey
  12. 12The Kid
  13. 13When the Letter Came
  14. 14The Cat Took the Kosher Meat
  15. 15Nibsy’s Christmas
  16. 16In the Children’s Hospital
  17. 17Nigger Martha’s Wake
  18. 18What the Christmas Sun Saw in the Tenements
  19. 19Midwinter in New York
  20. 20A Chip From the Maelstrom
  21. 21Sarah Joyce’s Husbands
  22. 22Merry Christmas in the Tenements
  23. 23Abe’s Game of Jacks
  24. 24A Little Picture
  25. 25A Dream of the Woods
  26. 26’Twas ‘Liza’s Doings
  27. 27Heroes Who Fight Fire
  28. 28John Gavin, Misfit
  29. 29A Heathen Baby
  30. 30The Christening in Bottle Alley
  31. 31In the Mulberry Street Court
  32. 32Difficulties of a Deacon
  33. 33Fire in the Barracks
  34. 34War on the Goats
  35. 35He Kept His Tryst
  36. 36Rover’s Last Fight
  37. 37How Jim Went to the War
  38. 38A Backwoods Hero
  39. 39Jack’s Sermon
  40. 40Skippy of Scrabble Alley
  41. 41Making a Way Out of the Slum

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