Item - Metropolitan Pen Pictures: The "Old Rag-Men"

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 25 no. 23 — page 8
Alternate Title:	The "Old Rag-Men"
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXV, no. 23, April 21, 1870 (Issue)
Author:	Urner, Nathan D.
Date:	April 21, 1870
Edition Description:	Subtitle: The "Old Rag-Men"
First Sentence:	Nearly all of us are familiar, from childhood, with that antediluvian fossil who buys old rags from our mothers, and who is doubly endeared if he is assisted in drawing his cart by harnessed dogs, or other undersized quadrupeds.
Last Sentence:	But we read of many cases analogous to this; and probably many a romance might be woven out of the life of the poor rag-picker.