Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ups and Downs of a Crook's Life
IT was a cold morning in December, in 1871, when I stepped from the rear car of the night express on the New York and New Haven Railroad, and stood for a moment hesitating, in front of the Grand Cen tral Depot. The wind was whirling the snow in lit tle gusts to the right, on Forty-second Street, and up Fourth Avenue; and ?akes were falling so fast that I could scarcely see the horse-cars as they dis appeared into the tunnel going down-town. It was one of the days when New Yorkers always take a surface-car, the elevated, or a cab, even if they have only three or four blocks to go. But I hadn't even a nickel in my pocket, and the friend I wanted to see lived on Elizabeth Street, just off the Bowery.
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