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Updated: May 11, 2025

With its basement-doors opening into its bottomless pit; with its continual outgoing and ingoing of sooty and cruel-visaged denizens; with its rickety old steps leading to the second story; with its battered windows, begrimed walls, demolished shutters, clapboards hanging at sixes and sevens-with its suspicious aspect; there it stands, with its distained sign over the doors of its bottomless pit.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life