A Day in the Ma’sh – Frontispiece
Frontispiece and first page of Maurice Egan's "A Day in the Ma'sh" from Scribner's Monthly, July 1881.
“Every city holds out-of-the-way places unknown to the mere sojourner within its gates, and full of local oddities and delights which the stranger, however experienced, can never share with the citizen. To the casual visitor in Philadelphia the cabalistic word “The Neck,” and the piquant phrase “Down in the Ma’sh,” convey no meaning.”