Sunday, December 25, 2011

Sunday's Kat Kwote




"They're a miserable lot," said the old maid, fondling her cats defiantly; "but let 'em. It's Christmas. Ah!" she added, as one of the eight stood up in her lap and rubbed its cheek against hers, "they're innocent. It isn't poor little animals that does the harm. It's men and women that does it to each other."

~ Jacob A. Riis from "Merry Christmas in the Tenements" ~




Photo courtesy Library of Congress.

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