1. In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called 'places.' P. One street crosses itself a time or two. Q. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. R. These 'places' make strange angles and curves. S. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account! 6. So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.