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country, though still showing signs of 

 having been at one time a very paradise 

 in its natural state, was uninviting. Seth 

 remarked the filth on all sides of the street 

 they drove through, and compared the 

 dilapidated condition of that part of the 

 town to many parts of Jersey City. 



How strange, he thought, that the 

 filthy main driveways of these two cities 

 should be the great gateways to the most 

 beautiful scenic spots the country boasts 

 of Long Island, with its Great South 

 Bay ; Greenwood Lake, with its romantic 

 Warwick Woodlands, and the Highlands 

 of the Hudson, walled by the far-famed 

 Palisades. 



' Wait till we get out o' town a bit, 

 Seth," pleaded Corbin; " then you '11 see 

 something worth looking at. This part 

 of the Island is pretty bad, I '11 admit 

 the dirtiest spot this side of Little Italy 

 on your own beloved Manhattan Isle." 



* These miserable beings clustered 

 here in this filth! " exclaimed the young 



