Book/Printed Material A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These adventures convey and illustrate the rules of beggary for poets and some others.
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- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 5 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS
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- Date: 1916
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Image 6 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... •The THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN CO., Limited LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 7 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE POETIC FRATERNITY Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsyl- vania. These...
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 8 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... -«g c o PT COPYRIGHT, 1916, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916. I -j NOV 23 1916 NnraraotJ $«ag J. 8. Cushing Co. Berwick Smith Co. Norwood,...
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Image 9 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author desires to express his indebted- ness to The Outlook for permission to reprint the adventures in the South and to Charles Zueblin for permission to reprint the adventures in...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 10 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ...
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Image 11 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... DEDICATION AND PREFACE OF A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS There are one hundred new poets in the villages of the land. This Handy Guide is dedicated first of all to them. It...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 12 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... viii DEDICATION AND PREFACE hads dear to Christ and those virgin sisters of Joan of Arc who serve the lepers on their knees and march in shabby armor against the proud, who...
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Image 13 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Acknowledgements v The Dedication and Preface vii Follow the Thistledown xi I. VAGRANT ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH Columbus 3 The Man under the Yoke. Being My First Ex-...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 14 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... x TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Interlude: The Tramp s Refusal 61 The House of the Loom. Being the Story of Seven Aristocrats and a Soap-kettle. An Eminent Instance of the Good Fortune...
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Image 15 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... TABLE OF CONTENTS xi PAGE Interlude: What the Sexton Said 159 Death, the Devil, and Human Kindness. Being the Shred of an Allegory .160 Interludes: Life Transcendent 179 In the Immaculate Conception...
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Image 16 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ...
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Image 17 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... VAGRANT ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH
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- Date: 1916
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Image 19 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... COLUMBUS Would that we had the fortunes of Columbus. Sailing his caravels a trackless way, He found a Universe he sought Cathay. God give such dawns as when, his venture o er,...
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Image 20 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ...
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Image 21 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN UNDER THE YOKE It was Sunday morning in the middle of March. I was stranded in Jacksonville, Florida. After breakfast I had five cents left. Joyously I purchased a sack...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 22 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 6 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS gate to appeal to the proud old lady crowned with a lace cap and enthroned in the porch rocker. Her son, the proprietor, appeared. He shall...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 23 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN UNDER THE YOKE 7 decided that when he had a roof he would go shares with whoever asked. Some strangers were good, some bad, but he would risk them all....
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- Date: 1916
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Image 24 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 8 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS There were three uncertain chairs on the porch, one a broken rocker. Therefore the company sat on the railing, loafing against the- pillars. The plump wife...
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 25 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN UNDER THE YOKE 9 I could not offer my chair, and make it plain that some one must stand. I expressed my regrets at her lack of appetite and fell...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 26 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 10 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS heart of the pine woods. He had cut himself in the saw-pit, had been laid up for a month, and like a fool had gone back...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 27 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN UNDER THE YOKE 11 for instance, in Tennessee, where a deaf old man, a crone, and her sister, a lame man, a slug of a girl, and a little unexplained...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 28 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 12 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS brocades of Hokusai. You have felt the charm of Maeterlinck s The Blind. Think of these, then think of the shoulders of the Man Under the...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 29 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN UNDER THE YOKE 13 was a team of ten oxen. He directed me to a road whereby I would be sure to see half a dozen to-morrow. He said if...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 30 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN WITH THE APPLE-GREEN EYES Remember, if you go a-wandering, the road will break your heart. It is sometimes like a woman, caressing and stabbing at once. It is a mystery,...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 31 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN WITH APPLE-GREEN EYES 15 rattled. Two babies cried. Everybody as- sumed that lectures were delightful, miserable, and important. The woman on the back seat nursed her baby, reducing the noise...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 32 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 16 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS Who would not have loved the six sons, when, at the Patriarch s command, they drew into a circle around the family altar, with their small...
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 33 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN WITH APPLE-GREEN EYES 17 lay me down to sleep. The father mega- phoned for the next, and the next, with a like response. He called the girl s name, but...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 34 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 18 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS than in mid-Florida the marsh weeds beneath were lustrous red. I crossed an interminable trestle over the Suwannee River. A fidgety bird was scolding from tie...
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- Date: 1916
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Image 35 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN WITH APPLE-GREEN EYES 19 set afire by wood-burning locomotives whose volcanic smoke-stacks are squat and wide, like those on the engines in grandmother s third reader. We had met Mr....
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 36 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 20 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS path wanders back through history till it encounters Tramp Columbus, Tramp Dante, Tramp St. Francis, Tramp Buddha, and the rest of our masters. All this we...
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 37 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN WITH APPLE-GREEN EYES 21 swearing and slapping on the back. He showed credentials, printed and written. He did not want to wait three hours for the passenger train in that...
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 38 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 22 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS the possessor of one. I drew his attention to the fact that there was no purse in the exhibit. I divided my last four ginger-snaps with...
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 39 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... THE MAN WITH APPLE-GREEN EYES 23 The old man came down. I bridled my profane tongue while he lectured the conductor on the necessity for more interest in the Georgia public schools,...
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
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Image 40 of A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry ... 24 A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS Jews are niggers. All people are niggers but just these four. There is going to be a big war in two or three years between all...
- Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
- Date: 1916
About this Item
Title
- A handy guide for beggars, especially those of the poetic fraternity; being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These adventures convey and illustrate the rules of beggary for poets and some others.
Names
- Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931.
Created / Published
- [New York, Boston] The Macmillan company, 1916.
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC ael 2020-02-04 update (1 card)
Medium
- xi, 205 p. 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PS3523.I58 H3 1916
- PS3523.I58 H3 1916 Copy 3 Gift of Robert Lafollette.
Library of Congress Control Number
- 16023558
OCLC Number
- 865271
Online Format
- image
- online text