Prologue

Aladdin alley attic beneath boys bridge chair cheese house chil child Christmas climbed colored creature crowded crutches Cuyahoga River dark dirty Dolly door empty Euclid Avenue excitement face far-off fear feet fence fetched fingers fire floor forever Franklin Street gas flare girls glass grandfather grass Grover Cleveland head Henry Marston hill hint horse hour hung inside journey Jules Verne JULIA FLORY Julius Caesar kitchen light looked Marston recalls merely mighty mirror morning Mory's neighbors never night nose ocarina old house old lady once painted parlor perhaps phaeton played porch Prowley pulled rattled Rocky River roof seemed shadows sitting-room slope smell sound spools stairs stood Stoops to Conquer strange Sunday Tamworth thought trees trotted Tubb turned velocipede voice walked walls West whispering wind window Yale yard youth