Now he paused and rested on his umbrella when he had reached a bit of high ground, and gazed over Nyack generally, and then over the Tappan Zee.

Here was the new field of the great labors before him.

How often he had taken Dogtown by the neck and shaken her up severely.

The day might come when he would have to take Nyack by the neck and give her a good shaking up, morally and religiously.

Mrs.Chapman had written him to say that Nyack was a bad place, secularly and otherwise.
The whole Chapman family (including the big dog) was out at the door to welcome the stranger; and such a warm greeting as he got.