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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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.
By VACHEL LINDSAY Author of “The Congo,” “The Art of The Moving Picture,” “Adventures while Preaching the Gospel of Beauty,” etc.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY PUBLISHERS MCMXVI
Copyright, 1916, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
The author desires to express his indebtedness to The Outlook for permission to reprint the adventures in the South and to Charles Zueblin for permission to reprint the adventures in the East.
The author desires to express his indebtedness to the Chicago Herald for permission to reprint The Would-be Merman , and to The Forum for What the Sexton Said , and to The Yale Review for The Tramp’s Refusal .
The author wishes to express his gratitude to Mr. George Mather Richards, Miss Susan Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ide and Miss Grace Humphrey for their generous help and advice in preparing this work.
There are one hundred new poets in the villages of the land. This Handy Guide is dedicated first of all to them .
It is also dedicated to the younger sons of the wide earth, to the runaway boys and girls getting further from home every hour, to the prodigals who are still wasting their substance in riotous living, be they gamblers or blasphemers or plain drunks; to those heretics of whatever school to whom life is a rebellion with banners; to those who are willing to accept counsel if it be mad counsel.