The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Chronic Loafer, by Nelson Lloyd


THE
CHRONIC LOAFER

BY
NELSON LLOYD

NEW YORK
J. F. TAYLOR & COMPANY
1900

Copyright, 1900,
By
J. F. Taylor & Company.


CONTENTS.

CHAPTERPAGE
I.The Reunion[5]
II.The Spelling Bee[17]
III.Absalom Bunkel[28]
IV.The Missus[37]
V.The Awfullest Thing[54]
VI.The Wrestling Match[63]
VII.The Tramp’s Romance[74]
VIII.Ambition—An Argument[80]
IX.Bumbletree’s Bass-Horn[97]
X.Little Si Berrybush[107]
XI.Cupid and a Mule[126]
XII.The Haunted Store[136]
XIII.Rivals[149]
XIV.Buddies[159]
XV.Joe Varner’s Belling[169]
XVI.The Sentimental Tramp[176]
XVII.Hiram Gum, the Fiddler[183]
XVIII.The “Good Un”[193]
XIX.Breaking the Ice[202]
XX.Two Stay-at-Homes[212]
XXI.Eben Huckin’s Conversion[219]
XXII.A Piece in the Paper[237]