title: city-sized bruise: a collection//2010-2017
author: abbey byers
description: abbey byers is a poet, film photographer, artistic weirdo, and animal lover.
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  # Alice May, and Bruising Bill
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### J. H. Ingraham
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV.
  
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  
  
  
  BRUISING BILL.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
    
  CONCLUSION.
  
  
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  ### CHAPTER I.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  One cheerful autumnal morning, six years ago, a group of lovely
  
  
  girls was assembled in a window of a fashionable boarding school in
  
  
  one of the handsomest streets crossing Mount Vernon. One or two of
  
  
  them were seated with embroidery in their hands, but the rest were
  
  
  standing and talking, and amusing themselves by watching the passers
  
  
  by; for there was yet an idle quarter of an hour to recitations.
  
  
    
  `Do see that poor old man! how white his hair is, and how he bends
  
  
  beneath his years, while that empty bag he carries