The Mysteries and Miseries of New York. Pt. V

Excerpt from The Mysteries and Miseries of New York: A Story of Real Life
N or in the olden time when the people differed as much from us in character as in costume, do we commence this story - but now, in modern days, when every man, woman, and child, who reads it, can recognise its characters and descriptions.
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