n' the livin' truth, as she towered
up in front on me, her breast opened and a man's
face looked out on me._" 254

"_As I went down with lightnin' speed I had'nt
time to think much._" 259

"_Pretty soon it begun to move and one by one
they wuz throwed off and went down I know not
where._" 261

_"As I went into Dreamland it seemed as if all
the folks in the city was there."_ 267

_"We got in a small boat and wuz carried round
and round till we dived into a dark tunnel."_ 277

_"I went forward to see the Head Hunters. I
sez to 'em 'I've hearn of your doin's and I want
to advise you for your good_.'" 282

_"It wuz a sight to see, acres and acres of
sand dotted with men, wimmen, and children."_ 287

"_I rushed forwards and cried to the lordly
beast above, jest ready to spring: 'Don't harm
Josiah! Devour me instead._'" 304

"_I myself never sot foot on the Bowery; I
wuzn't goin' to nasty up my mind with it, though
I hearn there wuz some good things to be seen
there._" 314

"_'The suller!' He stood agast, perfectly
dumb-foundered but wuzn't goin' to give in he
had made a mistake. It wuz too mortifying to his
pride._" 319

"_I don't know how long they stood there, his
eyes searchin' the dear face and findin' a
sacred meanin' in it._" 348

CHAPTER ONE

IN WHICH THE CONEY ISLAND MICROBE ENTERS OUR QUIET HOME

SAMANTHA AT CONEY ISLAND AND A THOUSAND OTHER ISLANDS

CHAPTER ONE

IN WHICH THE CONEY ISLAND MICROBE ENTERS OUR QUIET HOME

When Serenus Gowdey got back last fall from Brooklyn, where his twin
brother, Sylvester, lives, he couldn't talk about anything but Coney
Island. He slighted religion, stopped runnin' down relations, politics
wuz left in the lurch, and cows, hens, and crops, wuz to him as if
they wuzn't. He acted crazy as a loon about that Island.

Why, Sylvester'ses wife told Miss Dagget and she told the Editor of
the Augur's wife, and she told Ben Lowry's widder, and she told the
Editor of the Gimlet's mother-in-law, and she told