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Start of eBook	1
THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS	1
PREFACE	1
CHAPTER I—THE DESCENT	2
CHAPTER II—JOHNNY UPRIGHT	7
CHAPTER III—MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS	9
CHAPTER IV—A MAN AND THE ABYSS	11
CHAPTER V—THOSE ON THE EDGE	16
CHAPTER VI—FRYING-PAN ALLEY AND A GLIMPSE OF INFERNO	19
CHAPTER VII—A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS	23
CHAPTER VIII—THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER	26
CHAPTER IX—THE SPIKE	33
CHAPTER X—CARRYING THE BANNER	42
CHAPTER XI—THE PEG	44
CHAPTER XII—CORONATION DAY	51
CHAPTER XIII—DAN CULLEN, DOCKER	58
CHAPTER XIV—HOPS AND HOPPERS	61
CHAPTER XV—THE SEA WIFE	66
CHAPTER XVI—PROPERTY VERSUS PERSON	68
CHAPTER XVII—INEFFICIENCY	71
CHAPTER XVIII—WAGES	75
CHAPTER XIX—THE GHETTO	78
CHAPTER XX—COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES	85
CHAPTER XXI—THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LIFE	91
CHAPTER XXII—SUICIDE	96
CHAPTER XXIII—THE CHILDREN	100
CHAPTER XXIV—A VISION OF THE NIGHT	104
CHAPTER XXV—THE HUNGER WAIL	106
CHAPTER XXVI—DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT	110
CHAPTER XXVII—THE MANAGEMENT	114
CHALLENGE	117
LONGFELLOW	117

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