. When old New York was young . GREENWICH VILLAGE ANDTHE ^^ MOUSE-TRAP SOME streets are like pages of history,and none more so than those of Green-wich Village ; so that it is quite a de-light to walk among them. Whenever I doso I am sure to end up in one particular is a part that I have christened the Mouse-trap —a labyrinth of quiet, narrowstreets. There is one that is lined withsleepy-looking shops, and others with irregu-lar dwellings of the kind that were plentifulenough seventy and eighty and a hundredyears ago, but of which there are few to befound now, except here in the Mouse-
. When old New York was young . GREENWICH VILLAGE ANDTHE ^^ MOUSE-TRAP SOME streets are like pages of history,and none more so than those of Green-wich Village ; so that it is quite a de-light to walk among them. Whenever I doso I am sure to end up in one particular is a part that I have christened the Mouse-trap —a labyrinth of quiet, narrowstreets. There is one that is lined withsleepy-looking shops, and others with irregu-lar dwellings of the kind that were plentifulenough seventy and eighty and a hundredyears ago, but of which there are few to befound now, except here in the these side streets you can find ancientdoorways with carved side - posts; findwrought-iron fences and gates; find dormer [9>] GREENWICH VILLAGE AND windows that went out of fashion before mostof us were born; find circular windowsjammed in between square ones; find every-. An Old Home in Greenwich Village. thing that is old and quaint, but nothing thatis of this day and generation. It is curious to note the different ways inwhich the streets of the ** Mouse-trap dis-appear. Sometimes they end abruptly in acourt; sometimes they twist out of sight [92] THE MOUSE-TRAP around a row of houses against which theyare brought with a sudden halt; sometimesthey slip into another street and become onewith it; sometimes they are cut short bylittle open spaces which are called parks, andin which there are a few decaying trees. In this Mouse-trap you can wanderabout for hours and lose all sense of whereyou are. You may feel quite sure that youare walking north, when all at once you hndthat you are walking east and are practicallylost! A man has lately insisted to me thatthere is no Greenwich Village ; that therehad been one eighty years ago, but that therewas now no trace of it. As the man hadlived in the city all his life, I was quite fran-tic. No Greenwich Village !
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