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Excerpt from A Vagabond in New York

Naturally again, they do not appear under their real names. You may walk miles along Sixth Avenue and never find Mr. Cholmondely's laboratory; the Officer who directs the traffic at the corner of Broadway and Union Square will not answer to the name of Dempsey; may even deny the existence of any officer answer ing to that name. Yet you may believe with out fear of being led astray that Mr. Chol mondely, however called, is at this moment somewhere adapting chickens to a new career; that Dempsey, whitest man who ever trod shoe leather, is somewhere directing traffic; that somewhere Gladys, unmindful of her earlier loves, is making eyes - red, piggy eyes - at her mahout of the moment.

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Excerpt from A Vagabond in New York

At the time when some of these sketches were appearing in the pages of Truth I received a letter from an earnest-minded reader, enquiring whether they were supposed to be "remotely founded on fact," or were merely "the imaginative efforts of a common or garden liar." Perhaps I should therefore preface them in their collected form with the assurance that they are one and all "founded on fact," not over and above remotely. They are based, as they profess to be, upon the experiences of a young Englishman during a period of vagabondage enjoyed in New York and thereabouts. They do not however claim the exact fidelity to fact of Hansard or a Law Report.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.