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ays。 They tend their furnaces of the Bowery; the fires that burn in oil drums on zero winter nights。 They may work in the financial district downtown and never see the extravagant plantings of Rockefeller Center—the daffodils7 and grape hyacinths and birches and the flags trimmed to the wind on a fine morning in spring。 Or they may work in a midtown office and may let a whole year swing round without sighting Governors Island from the sea wall。 The muter dies with tremendous mileage to his credit but he is no rover。 His entrances and exits are more devious than those in a prairie…dog village; and he calmly plays bridge while buried in the mud at the bottom of the East River。 The Long Island Rail Road alone carried forty million muters last year; but many of them were the same fellow retracing his steps。
The terrain of New York is such that a resident sometimes travels farther; in the end; than a muter。 Irving Berlin’s journey from Cherry Street in the Lower East Side to an apartment uptown was through an alley and was only three or four mile in length; but it was like going three times around the world。
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