英文之旅

Only on the lower East Side of New York do the houses of Capulet and Montagu survive. There they do not fight by the book of arithmetic.

Okochee, in Georgia, had a boom, and J. Pinkney Bloom came out of it with a "wad." Okochee came out of it with a half-million-dollar debt, a two and a half per cent. city property tax, and a city council that showed a propensity for traveling the back streets of the town.

"One thousand dollars," repeated Lawyer Tolman, solemnly and severely, "and here is the money."

The judge of the United States court of the district lying along the Rio Grande border found the following letter one morning in his mail:

To avoid having this book hurled into corner of the room by the suspicious reader, I will assert in time that this is not a newspaper story.

He compelled my interest as he stepped from the ferry at Desbrosses Street.