Excerpt from The Story of a Bird Lover Brooklyn was little more than a village in 1852, the year when I was born, and all the country back of the City Hall was open, fields and farms; the Heights south of Wall Street ferry Sloped down in a green bank to New York Bay, and Bedford and Coney Island were remote points where we went for excursions to the country. It was a village with a volunteer fire department, and no general water or sewer system. There was a public pump in the street nearly opposite where we lived, to which ...
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Excerpt from The Story of a Bird Lover Brooklyn was little more than a village in 1852, the year when I was born, and all the country back of the City Hall was open, fields and farms; the Heights south of Wall Street ferry Sloped down in a green bank to New York Bay, and Bedford and Coney Island were remote points where we went for excursions to the country. It was a village with a volunteer fire department, and no general water or sewer system. There was a public pump in the street nearly opposite where we lived, to which all the neighbors went for water, -a centre Of gossip and news. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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