CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
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The Adjustment,[1]
CHAPTER II
A Day-laborer at West Point,[33]
CHAPTER III
A Hotel Porter,[78]
CHAPTER IV
A Hired Man at an Asylum,[108]
CHAPTER V
A Farm Hand,[144]
CHAPTER VI
In a Logging Camp,[179]
CHAPTER VII
In a Logging Camp (Concluded), [225]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

We Breathe the Hot Air, Heavy with the
Smell of Fresh Soil, and the Sweat Drips
from our Faces upon the Damp Clay,		[Frontispiece]
FACING
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I Easily Passed Unnoticed in the Crowd,[24]
A Weird Procession, this Fragment of a
Company in the Ranks of Labor,		[48]
I Held my Peace, and Respectfully
Touched my Cap, Inwardly Calling Her
the Beauty that She Was,		[94]
The Men were Rising from their Seats,
and the Air was Full of Welcome,		[216]