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HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES.

the stale-beer dives. Where his headquarters is, in the Mulberry Street Bend, these vile dens nourish and gather about them all the wrecks, the utterly wretched, the hopelessly lost, on the lowest slope of depraved humanity. And out of their misery he makes a profit.