river-workers

Updated: May 15, 2025

To-night there were a few men standing at the foot of the street where the steps are river-workers who had property afloat and imprisoned by the ice, dwellers, perhaps, in those cheap houses beneath the bridge which are now gradually falling under the builder's hammer, who took a sleepless interest in the prospects of a flood.

Henry Seton Merriman - The Vultures