CHAPTER V 



A HOUSE OF MANY DOOBS 



WILL you look carefully at the little picture 

 on this page to see if you can make out 

 fish-hawks, "crow "-blackbirds and an English 

 sparrow two English sparrows? This picture 

 is of a fish-hawk's nest in whose rough, uneven 

 walls were a whole colony of smaller nests. 



I know of a large tenement house in the city of 

 Boston, where people of thirteen different nation- 

 alities are living. The ends of the earth gath- 

 ered together under one roof ! There were not so 

 many kinds of jabbering tongues in the whole of 

 the ancient city of Babel, I am sure. 



Every great city nowadays is a whole small 

 world; and every great city tenement house is a 

 whole smaller world. The whole world is trying 



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