TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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]