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Title: The Van Dwellers
A Strenuous Quest for a Home
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Release Date: February 17, 2009 [eBook #28101]
Language: English
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THE VAN DWELLERS
by
ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
[Illustration: "WELL, AND WHEN DID YEZ ORDER IT TURNED
ON?"--_Frontispiece_.]
THE VAN DWELLERS
A Strenuous Quest for a Home
by
ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
Author of "The Bread Line"
[Illustration]
_"We were strangers and they took us in"_
New York
J. F. Taylor & Company
1901
Copyright, 1901
by
J. F. Taylor & Company
_TO THOSE_
WHO HAVE LIVED IN FLATS
_TO THOSE_
WHO ARE LIVING IN FLATS
_AND TO THOSE_
WHO ARE THINKING OF
LIVING IN FLATS
Contents.
PAGE
I. The First Home in the Metropolis. 1
II. Metropolitan Beginnings. 13
III. Learning by Experience. 28
IV. Our First Move. 45
V. A Boarding House for a Change. 60
VI. Pursuing the Ideal. 72
VII. Owed to the Moving Man. 86
VIII. Household Retainers. 88
IX. Ann 104
X. A "Flat" Failure. 114
XI. Inheritance and Mania. 133
XII.
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