"_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 Rollers_ 45
"_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 Fire_ 87
"_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 Army_ 140
_The March of the Children_ 141, 142
_From the Monument_ 149
"_And he stood there, like a colonel, with her
trembling on his arm_" 159
_Chasing the Bicycle_ 163
"_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