My Monks of Vagabondia

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Floyd Andress Small. My Monks of Vagabondia

Introductory

A JOURNEY TO OUR MONASTERY

MARY AND THE BABY

MY PROBLEM WITH SLIPPERY JIM

OUR FRIEND, THE ANARCHIST

A BASHFUL BEGGAR

FRITZ AND HIS SUN DIAL

THE WAITER WHO DID NOT WAIT

COMPOUNDING A FELONY

THE PASSING OF SULLIVAN

WHEN SISTER CALLED

EDISON’S EVENING STAR

IN THE WORLD OF WANDERLUST

THE TWO JEANS

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The man had walked the entire distance from New York to the Self Master Family. In truth, he had walked more than the entire distance, for once or twice he had lost his way – as many a man has done in other walks of Life. Painfully he had retraced his steps to the right road. The mistakes had told heavily upon his failing strength. They had made him just that much more weary with it all. No doubt mistakes are wonderfully educational; they make men wiser, and therefore better, for in the final analysis wisdom and goodness are synonymous.

He complained bitterly at the hardness of his lot and found little comfort in the thought that he might reach the Colony too late for the evening meal.

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THE BABY’S FATHER

Now, this Baby has a father. He has lived in Russia and came to America to earn money. One of his older brothers was already located in New York State, and from his letters sent over the sea, it was plain that the opportunities for wealth in the States were most promising.

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