Item - Metropolitan Shadow Scenes: Night Beggars

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Series:	New York Weekly — v. 24 no. 4 — page 4
Alternate Titles:	Metropolitan Shadow Scenes, Number One Night Beggars
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXIV, no. 4, December 10, 1868 (Issue)
Author:	Urner, Nathan D.
Date:	December 10, 1868
Edition Description:	Subtitle: Night Beggars
First Sentence:	Out from the shadow of the deep, dark area-in the very noon of the starless, soundless night- out from the black mouth of the tunnel-like alleyway- right across one's path, as one is hurrying home, after long hours of exhaustive labor with the quill, she flits, ragged and ghostly in the moonlight, or still more startling in the flickering glare of the gas-lamp-the Night Beggar of the streets.
Last Sentence:	I have never seen her since, but often in my dreams, I see that white, imploring hand stretched out to me through the horror and the mystery of these Shadow-Scenes; and that wild cry: "Starved to death! Dead-dead-dead!" is still ringing in my ears.