TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Acknowledgements | [ v] |
| The Dedication and Preface | [ vii] |
| Follow This Thistledown | [ xi] |
| I. VAGRANT ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH | |
| Columbus | [ 3] |
| The Man under the Yoke. Being My First Experience as an Absolutely Penniless Person, and Showing the Good Fortune of the Penniless | [ 5] |
| The Man with the Apple-green Eyes. A Story Covering a Ride in Two Freight-cabooses in Southern Georgia. Showing How My Good Luck Came after I Spent My All upon Ginger-snaps | [ 14] |
| Interlude: The Would-be Merman | [ 33] |
| Macon. Showing My First Respite with a Civilized Friend | [ 35] |
| The Falls of Tallulah. Being the Story of a Wild Bath in a Mountain-torrent, and a Conversation with the Earth | [ 38] |
| The Gnome. Being the Story of a Grotesque Moonshiner, Eaten up with Drink | [ 46] |
| 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 of the Devotee of Voluntary Poverty | [ 63] |
| Interlude: Phidias | [ 78] |
| Man, in the City of Collars. Showing How an Unexpected Shock Came to a Civilized Person. A Not Very Tragic Relapse into the Toils of Finance | [ 79] |
| Interlude: Confucius | [ 87] |
| The Old Lady at the Top of the Hill. Showing How an Empress of the Mountains Desired Me as Her Guest | [ 88] |
| Interlude: With a Rose, to Brunhilde | [ 94] |
| Lady Iron-heels. A Story Touching upon the Romance of a Long-dead Florist,—also the Canticle of the Rose | [ 96] |
| II. A MENDICANT PILGRIMAGE IN THE EAST | |
| In Lost Jerusalem | [ 113] |
| A Temple Made with Hands | [ 115] |
| Interlude: The Town of American Visions | [ 133] |
| On Being Entertained by College Boys | [ 135] |
| Interlude: That Which Men Hail as King | [ 137] |
| Near Shickshinny. The Story of the Hospitality of a Promising Family in a Coal-mining Region | [ 138] |
| 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 Church | [ 180] |
| The Old Gentleman with the Lantern (and the People of His Household) | [ 182] |
| That Men Might See Again the Angel-throng | [ 205] |