CHAPTEE XX.

ITALIAN LIFE IN NEW YORK — SCENES IN THE GEEAT BEND
IN MULBERRY STREET — HOMES OF FILTH AND SQUALOR.

The Home of the Organ-Grinder and his Monkey—Italian Child Slavery —
Begging, or Honest Occupation — Grinding Poverty — An Italian's First
View of New York — Plashing Eyes and Gay-Colored Raiment — Fatalists

— The Great Bend in Mulberry Street—Mouldy Bread and Skinny Poultry

— Tainted Meat and Ancient Fish—Unbearable Odors — Rotten Vegeta¬
bles and Rancid Butter — Strong Flavors in Cooking — The Beehive —

. Bones, Garbage, and Rags — Squalid and Filthy Homes — Swarming in
Great Tenement Houses — Maccaroni and Oil — The Monkey-Trainer —
Rag-Pickers in Cellars and Basements — How the Italians Live — Smashed
Eggs by the Spoonful— " Little Italy."
 

CURBSTONE GOSSIP IN MULBERRY STREET.
 

FULLY a generation
ago the children
Y'ho Y'atched from New
York windows for the
organ-grinder and his
monkey, or those more
• Iventurous ones Y'ho
!■ flowed his devious
■■ ay as far as they
inred, looked with Y'on-
■lering eyes at the mon¬
key's close companion,
— a child, and some¬
times more than one,
dark-eyed, loY'-broY'ed
and swarthy, with flash¬
ing Y'hite teeth that
gleamed out at the least
kindness,  and a  grace

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