ILLUSTRATIONS.
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"These are the spires that were gleaming"Frontispiece.
"I saw tall derricks by the hundred rise"21
"I reached my hand down for it and it stopped"29
"When all to once the wheels departed suddenly above, an' took along my heels"43
Farmer Stebbins on Rollers45
"Yes, it's straight and true, good preacher, every word that you have said"51
"Choked and strangled by the foul breath of the chimneys over there"54
"Oh, the air is pure and wholesome where some babies coo and rest, and they trim
them out with ribbons, and they feed them with the best"55
"Weary old man with the snow-drifted hair, not by your fault are you suffering there"59
"Is't the same girl that stood, one night, there in the wide hall's thrilling light?"65
"And hateful hunger has come in"69
"He begged that horse's pardon upon his bended knees"80
"Away he rushed like a cyclone for the head o' 'Number Three'"82
"Laid down in his harness"83
How we Fought the Fire87
"Battered and bruised, forever abused, he lay by the moaning sea"99
"Miss Sunnyhopes she waded out"108
"Two inland noodles, for our first acquaintance with the sea"109
"A-floating on her dainty back"110
"I tried to kick this 'lovely wave'"110
"Heels over head—all in a bunch!"111
"We voted that we'd had enough"111
"To make four hundred dollars clear, an' help the children too"121
"We come 'thin part of one of it"123
"They 'put their heads together' in a new an' painful way"127
"He makes himself a bigger fool than all the fools he makes"129
The Salvation Army140
The March of the Children141
From the Monument149
"And he stood there, like a colonel, with her trembling on his arm"159
Chasing the Bicycle163
"Only a box, secure and strong, rough and wooden, and six feet long"167
"And carry back, from out our plenteous store, enough to keep himself a fortnight
more"172
"The hungry city children are coming here to-night"173
"He heard its soft tones through the cottages creep, from fond mothers singing their
babies to sleep"177