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...north side of Atlantic City, N. J., fringing the smoke-blackened Pennsylvania railroad yards, row on row of frame houses slouch over the street like ragged standees at a free-lunch counter. In the daytime, almost no one can be seen along that street, but at night the doors of the rickety houses open and the occupants come forth. Their black faces blend adeptly with the night; their bodies are blurred shadows in doorways, or lazy silhouettes revealed where street-corner bars and laundries drip golden honey into the darkness. They seem not to have a wish in the world...
Many of these aspirants for learning and free-lunch have honest ideas of what work is, and so, by ruining their health in study, give occasion for the German equivalent of a "fresh-air" charity. This we find under the name of "Sick Student's Relief Association." which sends large numbers of men to the health resorts and other recruiting places...
...anyhow. But his mind was shattered. From an ordinary amateur villain, he became a professional. He became an habitual performer on the cornet. He spent whole months in pursuing the nefarious calling of a book-agent. He sank lower and lower. He was at one time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle his future infamy? Let us shudder as we reveal the last act of his appalling moral cataclysm; for - sh - h! - he actually sank to the very...
Room in Ecstasy Hall. A free-lunch counter furnished with cigars and wine; four or five girls and two or three men in easy-chairs, smoking and drinking; MISS CARBUNCLE, Instructress, at a desk...
Beer and whiskey and free-lunch...