Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets And Other Writings About New York (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Plot & Excerpts
He flung a bottle high across two backyards at a window of the opposite tenement. It broke against the bricks of the house and the fragments fell crackling upon the stones below. The man shook his fist.1 A bare-armed woman, making an array of clothes on a line in one of the yards, glanced casually up at the man and listened to his words. Her eyes followed his to the other tenement. From a distant window, a youth with a pipe, yelled some comments upon the poor aim. Two children, being in the proper yard, picked up the bits of broken glass and began to fondle them as new toys. From the window at which the man raged came the sound of an old voice, singing. It quavered and trembled out into the air as if a sound-spirit had a broken wing. “Should I be car-reed tew th’ skies 0-on flow’ry be-eds of ee-ease, While others fought tew win th’ prize An’ sailed through blood-ee seas.” The man in the opposite window was greatly enraged. He continued to swear. A little old woman was the owner of the voice.
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