item: #1 of 16 id: 10690 author: Old Sleuth title: A Desperate Chance; Or, The Wizard Tramp's Revelation, a Thrilling Narrative date: None words: 19497 flesch: 85 summary: At the time we introduce the tramp and Desmond Dare to our readers in this narrative, they had been knocking around the mountains in search of their mine and had met with failures on every side, and at length one night they camped in the gulch as described in our opening paragraphs, and Brooks spoke the words with which we open our narrative. She hesitated and blushed, and after an instant of embarrassment Desmond said: keywords: brooks; creedon; desmond; find; game; gold; good; great; lad; man; right; rock; sharp; time; tramp cache: 10690.txt plain text: 10690.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 12424 author: A-No. 1 title: The Trail of the Tramp By A-No. 1, the Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Actual Experiences of His Own Life date: None words: 42009 flesch: 53 summary: At other times, just after they had passed some well dressed and often really benign looking citizen, Slippery would roughly nudge him and whisper, that was one of those 'fly mugs'--a detective, and then it would be some moments before he reverted to his former cheerfulness, proving to Joe how much he feared or despised those who uphold the law. Whenever I felt ill at ease for having added such a heavy burden to his small income, his quaint answer would always be: Joe, what little we can do for you we would cheerfully do for any human being in distress. keywords: away; boy; brother; chicago; city; day; door; eyes; face; foreman; frank; good; hand; home; house; illustration; jim; joe; kansas; kansas shorty; lad; lads; life; man; mcdonald; moment; mother; mrs; night; place; railroad; road; section; shorty; slippery; time; train; way cache: 12424.txt plain text: 12424.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 14658 author: London, Jack title: The Road date: None words: 52174 flesch: 90 summary: I have known men who have been robbed and who have talked all the rest of their lives about it. Here were more men in convict stripes. keywords: away; blind; boat; car; day; days; door; engine; eyes; feet; freight; good; half; hall; hand; head; hoboes; kid; lay; left; life; little; man; men; miles; moment; morning; new; night; railroad; river; road; run; shack; stop; street; time; town; train; tramp; water; way; work cache: 14658.txt plain text: 14658.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 21363 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel date: None words: 119713 flesch: 90 summary: She nodded pleasantly, and went down the steps, leaving Dexter face to face with the footman, who had become possessed of the news of the young guest's quality from no less a personage than Master Edgar himself. Oh, my name, cried Dexter, Obed Cole--I mean Dexter Grayson. keywords: boat; bob; boy; boys; course; dan'l; danby; day; dear; dexter; doctor; door; edgar; eyes; face; fish; garden; good; grayson; half; hand; head; helen; help; house; james; left; look; man; maria; master; mind; moment; papa; peter; place; right; river; room; round; saw; sir; sir james; stood; thought; time; want; water; way; yer; yes; young cache: 21363.txt plain text: 21363.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 35040 author: Flynt, Josiah title: Notes of an Itinerant Policeman date: None words: 46002 flesch: 67 summary: During the evening other men and boys came in, but they recognised that our early arrival entitled us to the good places, and they picked out the next best. Had it not been that questions on my part would have proven me to be a tenderfoot, which it was bad policy for one in my position to admit as possible, I should have made inquiries then and there, for it was plain that the push was an association that ought to interest me also; but all that I learned that night was that there was a gang of wild characters who were trying to run the Lake Shore Railroad, so far as Hoboland was concerned, according to their own wishes and interests, and that there were constant clashes between them and such men as were gathered together in the sand-house. keywords: business; class; country; crime; criminal; day; experience; force; good; kind; life; man; men; new; number; offenders; officer; people; place; police; prison; public; push; railroad; regard; states; thief; things; time; town; tramp; united; way; work; world; years; young cache: 35040.txt plain text: 35040.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 40036 author: Flynt, Josiah title: Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life date: None words: 95798 flesch: 79 summary: Entering the common meeting-room, and saluting as usual, we sat down at a table where there were other tramps also. Of course other tramps visit Albany as well, for it is a well-known town for refreshments; but only a few can thrive long there by begging only for money. keywords: american; beggar; begging; boy; boys; business; car; children; city; class; country; course; criminal; day; days; england; fellow; fer; general; good; half; hand; hang; hobo; hoboes; home; house; kid; kind; know; life; lodging; long; look; main; man; men; money; new; night; number; old; order; people; place; police; poor; railroad; road; slim; sort; states; street; thing; thought; time; town; train; tramp; way; west; work; world; years; yer; york cache: 40036.txt plain text: 40036.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 45306 author: Goodkind, Ben title: An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country date: None words: 53606 flesch: 88 summary: Say Billy, remarked I with my mouth full of bread, get on to the orange trees, will you? Where? asked Billy, with wide-staring eyes. Stranger, will you please permit me to give you an introduction to a particular friend of mine, little Billy. keywords: billy; book; burns; business; car; cars; cents; city; come; country; course; day; fellow; frisco; glasgow; going; good; great; half; high; house; kind; life; little; look; lots; man; money; morning; new; number; old; people; place; poet; railroad; right; river; room; scotland; sir; stores; street; things; thought; time; town; train; walter; want; way; work; york cache: 45306.txt plain text: 45306.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 45322 author: Peele, John (John R.) title: From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It Giving My Exciting Experiences as a "Hobo" date: None words: 28061 flesch: 84 summary: The man who uncoupled the engine of the Flomaton passenger that morning showed up just before train time. It was Horace Greeley, the great American author, who said: Young men go West. keywords: angeles; car; cars; cents; city; day; depot; door; freight; good; half; home; job; los; man; men; miles; new; night; place; railroad; street; time; town; train; way; work cache: 45322.txt plain text: 45322.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 45412 author: Brown, Edwin A. title: "Broke," The Man Without the Dime date: None words: 89395 flesch: 77 summary: The policeman is the same as other men. Many men were in the place seeking shelter and a snack from the free lunch counter. keywords: bath; bed; boy; boys; breakfast; cents; charity; cities; city; cold; day; days; destitute; dollars; door; emergency; food; free; good; great; half; hand; help; home; homeless; hour; house; institution; jail; know; left; life; lodging; man; men; mission; money; morning; municipal; new; night; o'clock; pay; people; place; police; public; railroad; rest; room; saw; shelter; sleep; state; street; thought; time; want; way; woman; work; work man; working; years; york cache: 45412.txt plain text: 45412.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 46558 author: Stephens, James title: The Demi-gods date: None words: 48457 flesch: 86 summary: * * * Said Patsy to Caeltia, pointing to Finaun: What does he be thinking about when he gets into them fits? He does be talking to the hierarchy, replied Caeltia. CHAPTER XXIII Said Patsy: There isn't very much to tell, but this is how it happened. keywords: art; ass; caeltia; cann; day; eileen; eyes; father; feet; finaun; good; hand; head; house; let; look; mac; man; mary; men; night; patsy; people; place; road; saw; story; tell; things; time; way; woman; world cache: 46558.txt plain text: 46558.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 46904 author: Dawson, William Harbutt title: The Vagrancy Problem. The Case for Measures of Restraint for Tramps, Loafers, and Unemployables: With a Study of Continental Detention Colonies and Labour Houses date: None words: 73479 flesch: 59 summary: | Head of Average +------------------+----------------- | Number of | (_a_) | At any time | On the | during | night of | January 1. keywords: .-----------+--------------------------+---------+---------------| |; = =; authorities; case; casual; colonies; colony; committee; cost; day; detention; following; footnote; government; homelessness |; houses; inmates; institutions; labour; labour house; law; life; man; men; months; persons; place; police; poor; prison; prisoners; public; relief; report; rest |; rise |; state; station |; time |; tramp; vagrancy; vagrants; wards; way; work |; workhouse; year |; | -|; | .-----------+--------------------------+---------+---------------|; | =; | bread; | class; | detainees; | fr; | mark; | number; | total; | women; | | cache: 46904.txt plain text: 46904.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 50558 author: Self, H. I. M. title: A Tramp's Scraps date: None words: 14242 flesch: 86 summary: Over goes the table and other man and everyone and everything is mixed up with the guanaco in the dark till the brute fights his way out of the house. Other man turned out to be an artist; had been through Borneo--of all places--and come out alive with a wonderful lot of pictures and photographs (burned later). keywords: day; door; end; fire; head; house; illustration; knife; left; man; men; miles; night; river; room; shot; time; way; woman cache: 50558.txt plain text: 50558.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 51004 author: Floyd, Andress title: My Monks of Vagabondia date: None words: 16463 flesch: 87 summary: Surely it wasn't a German who in the old Bible days sent hired mourners to go about the street; it was undoubtedly an Irishman whose genius conceived the idea of paying other men to do his weeping for him. Other men may linger in the failing twilight of the tired day. keywords: baby; boy; boys; colony; day; father; fritz; good; home; life; man; men; new; night; self; thought; time; work cache: 51004.txt plain text: 51004.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 51425 author: Davies, W. H. (William Henry) title: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp date: None words: 87647 flesch: 72 summary: The tramp is fastidious and accomplished, audacious and self-possessed; but he is free from divine exploitation: he has no orbit: he has the endless trouble of doing what he likes with himself, and the endless discountenance of being passed by as useless by the Life Force that finds superselfish work for other men. Few other men in the house, except they were fighting men, could have produced a toothbrush without being sneered at. keywords: bed; brum; business; case; clothes; cockney; coming; companion; country; course; day; days; door; doubt; drink; end; following; food; gentleman; good; half; hand; home; hour; house; kind; knowing; life; living; lodging; making; man; men; money; months; morning; new; night; number; people; place; poor; pounds; red; return; shillings; thought; time; town; train; voice; way; week; work; years cache: 51425.txt plain text: 51425.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 59904 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Tony, the Hero; Or, A Brave Boy's Adventures with a Tramp date: None words: 73677 flesch: 92 summary: Leaving Tony for a short time, we must return to Rudolph, whom we left in charge of a self-constituted body of police on his way to the station-house. Anger is unreasonable, and poor Tony would have fared badly, if he had fallen into Rudolph's clutches just then. keywords: 12mo; abner; ben; book; boy; boys; cents; cloth; course; day; door; father; gentleman; good; hero; home; hotel; house; illustrated; illustrations; james; lady; left; life; look; man; mean; middleton; mind; money; mrs; new; place; poor; price; right; room; rudolph; rugg; sam; sir; spencer; story; thought; time; tony; tramp; way; work; young cache: 59904.txt plain text: 59904.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 878 author: Whittier, John Greenleaf title: Yankee Gypsies date: None words: 5782 flesch: 68 summary: Poor old man! Well, Stephen, what news from old Barrington? Oh, well, I thought I knew ye, he answers, not the least disconcerted. keywords: cam; day; door; eyes; face; father; horse; life; man; new; thou; verses; winter; woman cache: 878.txt plain text: 878.txt