| "A tangled path" | [Frontispiece] |
| "The old lady sat down and wrote that letter" | [6] |
| "Sometimes a woman with a shawl over her head * * * exchanges a few words with him" | [9] |
| "And down in the big, red chair big sister plunks little sister" | [12] |
| "Then there is Mamie, the pretty girl in the window" | [14] |
| "And plays on the Italian bagpipes" | [16] |
| "A Jewish sweater with coats on his shoulder" | [20] |
| "Glass-put-in man" | [21] |
| "Poor woman with market-basket" | [21] |
| "A Chinaman who stalks on with no expression at all" | [24] |
| "The children are dancing" | [25] |
| "The girl you loved was * * * really grown up and too old for you" | [36] |
| "A few of the old family estates were kept up after a fashion" | [40] |
| "A random goat of poverty" | [41] |
| "The paint works that had paid for its building" | [45] |
| "A mansion imposing still in spite of age" | [49] |
| "She wound the great, tall, white columns with these strips" | [53] |
| "Here also was a certain dell" | [57] |
| "The railroad embankment beyond which lay the pretty, blue Hudson" | [59] |
| "The wreck of the woods where I used to scramble" | [60] |
| "A little enclosure that is called a park" | [63] |
| "It was a very pretty young lady who opened the door" | [64] |
| "An old gentleman from Rondout-on-the-Hudson" | [70] |
| "Young gentlemen sitting in a pot-house at high noon" | [72] |
| "A gentleman permanently in temporary difficulties" | [74] |
| "A jackal is a man generally of good address" | [81] |
| "The Bowery is the most marvellous thoroughfare in the world" | [85] |
| "More and stranger wares than uptown people ever heard of" | [89] |
| "Probably the edibles are in the majority" | [91] |
| "The Polish Jews with their back-yards full of chickens" | [93] |
| "The Anarchist Russians" | [94] |
| "The Scandinavians of all sorts who come up from the wharfs" | [96] |
| "Through the rich man's country" | [108] |
| "A convenient way through the woods" | [112] |
| "The lonely old trapper who had dwelt on that mountain" | [114] |
| "Malvina Dodd * * * took the winding track that her husband had laid out" | [118] |
| "Here the old man would sit down and wait" | [120] |
| "He did a little grading with a mattock" | [121] |
| "The laborers found it and took it" | [125] |
| "The tinkers * * * and the rest of the old-time gentry of the road" | [128] |
| "I used to go down that path on the dead run" | [131] |
| "'I'm Latimer,' said the man on the horse" | [139] |
| "That boy of Penrhyn's—the little one with the yellow hair" | [143] |
| "Lanterns and hand lamps dimly lit up faces" | [149] |
| "The river, the river,—oh, my boy!" | [152] |
| "The father leaned forward and clutched the arms of his chair" | [155] |
| "They had just met after a long beat" | [164] |
| "Half a dozen men naked to the waist scrubbing themselves" | [167] |
| "The mother knew that her lost child was found" | [173] |
| "The desperate young men of the bachelor apartments" | [180] |
| "The hot, lifeless days of summer in your town house" | [183] |
| "'That's no Johnny-jumper!'" | [185] |
| "Other local troubles" | [189] |
| "You send for Pat Brannigan" | [192] |
| "A little plain strip of paper headed 'Memorandum of sale'" | [200] |