Excerpt from On the Sidewalk These little stories are mainly the simple record of people and incidents I have seen in my morning walks across the business section of one of our great cities. He who traverses the city streets with eyes on the pavement below or the sky above or anywhere else but on the people he meets, misses many a sight worth seeing, and fails to get acquainted with many a rare character. He is walking through an art gallery, crowded with living pictures. If he will only look at them 'he will see rare and splendid canvasses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.