A Day with a Tramp, and Other Days

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Walter A. Wyckoff. A Day with a Tramp, and Other Days

A Day with a Tramp, and Other Days

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PREFACE

A DAY WITH A TRAMP

WITH IOWA FARMERS

A SECTION-HAND ON THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY

“A BURRO-PUNCHER”

INCIDENTS OF THE SLUMS

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Walter A. Wyckoff

Published by Good Press, 2019

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How he plucked up courage to meet her I do not know, for he did not tell me, and not for treasure would I have asked him at this point of the story. He did meet her, however, and the wonder of it was upon him still, as he told me modestly, in quaint speech, that she smiled upon him.

Oh, ineffable mystery of life, that he, a hobo of a few months before, should be reading now in a good girl’s eyes an answering liking to his own! He was little more than a lad, and she but a slip of a girl, and I do not know what it may have meant to her, but to him it was life from the dead. Very swiftly the winter sped and very hard he worked until he earned a job at piecework in the factory, and then harder than ever until he was making good wages. He could see little of her, for she had an instinctive knowledge of her father’s probable displeasure, but there grew up a tacit understanding between them that kept his hope and ambition fired.

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