A Handy Guide for Beggars

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Author

Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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.

Original Publication

United States: The MacMillan Company,1916.

Credits

D A Alexander, David E. Browm, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was created from images of public domain material made available by the University of Toronto Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 -- Travel -- United States

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67947

Release Date

April 29, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5. 5.DEDICATION AND PREFACE OF A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS
6. 6.TABLE OF CONTENTS
7. 7.FOLLOW THE THISTLEDOWN
8. 8.I VAGRANT ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH
9. 9.COLUMBUS
10. 10.THE MAN UNDER THE YOKE
11. 11.THE MAN WITH THE APPLE-GREEN EYES
12. 12.THE WOULD-BE MERMAN
13. 13.MACON
14. 14.THE FALLS OF TALLULAH (North Georgia) — I The Call of the Water — II The Piping of Pan — III Peril, Vanity, and Adoration — IV The Blood Unquenchable — V The Gift of Tallulah
15. 15.THE GNOME
16. 16.THE TRAMP’S REFUSAL On Being Asked by a Beautiful Gipsy to Join her Group of Strolling Players.
17. 17.THE HOUSE OF THE LOOM A Story of Seven Aristocrats and a Soap-Kettle.
18. 18.PHIDIAS
19. 19.MAN, IN THE CITY OF COLLARS A Not Very Tragic Relapse into the Toils of the World, and of Finance.
20. 20.CONFUCIUS
21. 21.THE OLD LADY AT THE TOP OF THE HILL
22. 22.WITH A ROSE, TO BRUNHILDE
23. 23.LADY IRON-HEELS [3] — I The Seven Suspicions — II The Tailor and the Florist — III A Brief Siesta — IV “ That’s All the Church I Get ”
24. 24.II A MENDICANT PILGRIMAGE IN THE EAST
25. 25.IN LOST JERUSALEM
26. 26.A TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS — I The Dwelling-place of Faith, Hope, and Charity — II Splitting Kindling — III The Sermon on the Mount — IV A Screaming Farce — V The Highway of Our God
27. 27.THE TOWN OF AMERICAN VISIONS (Springfield, Illinois)
28. 28.ON BEING ENTERTAINED ONE EVENING BY COLLEGE BOYS
29. 29.THAT WHICH MEN HAIL AS KING
30. 30.NEAR SHICKSHINNY — I — II The Son of King Coal — III The Daughter of the King — IV The Grandsons of the King — V On to Shickshinny
31. 31.WHAT THE SEXTON SAID
32. 32.DEATH, THE DEVIL, AND HUMAN KINDNESS The Shred of an Allegory — I The Undertaker — II The Trap without the Bait — III A Mysterious Driver — IV The Allegory Breaks Down. My Friend Humankindness with the Green Galluses
33. 33.LIFE TRANSCENDENT This being the name of praise given to a fair lady.
34. 34.IN THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH
35. 35.THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE LANTERN (AND THE PEOPLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD) — I The Savage Necklace — II By the Light of the Lantern — III You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourself — IV Gretchen-Cecilia, Waitress — V “ Papa has Come! ” — VI Conferences — VII The Spare Room — VIII Morning
36. 36.THAT MEN MIGHT SEE AGAIN THE ANGEL-THRONG
37. 37.Untitled
38. 38.Untitled
39. 39.Untitled
40. 40.Untitled

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