Excerpt: ...anyhow. And in some parts of it, if a real bum gets pinched, heaven help 'im, fur nothing else won't. One night, between twelve and one o'clock, I was put off of a freight train fur the second time in a place in the northern part of Tennessee, right near the Kentuckey line. I set down in a lumber yard near the railroad track, and when she started up agin I grabbed onto the iron ladder and swung my- self aboard. But the brakeman was watching fur me, and clumb down the ladder and stamped on my fingers. So I ...
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Excerpt: ...anyhow. And in some parts of it, if a real bum gets pinched, heaven help 'im, fur nothing else won't. One night, between twelve and one o'clock, I was put off of a freight train fur the second time in a place in the northern part of Tennessee, right near the Kentuckey line. I set down in a lumber yard near the railroad track, and when she started up agin I grabbed onto the iron ladder and swung my- self aboard. But the brakeman was watching fur me, and clumb down the ladder and stamped on my fingers. So I dropped off, with one finger con- siderable mashed, and set down in that lumber yard wondering what next. It was a dark night, and so fur as I could see they wasn't much moving in that town. Only a few places was lit up. One was way acrost the town square from me, and it was the telephone exchange, with a man operator reading a book in there. The other was the telegraph room in the depot about a hundred yards from me, and they was only two fellers in it, both smoking. The main business part of the town was built up around the square, like lots of old-fashioned towns is, and they was jest enough brightness from four, five electric lights to show the shape of the square and be reflected from the windows of the closed-up stores. I knowed they was likely a watchman somewheres about, too. I guessed I wouldn't wander around none and run no chances of getting took up by him. So I was getting ready to lay down on top of a level pile of boards and go to sleep when I hearn a curious kind of noise a way off, like it must be at the edge of town. It sounded like quite a bunch of cattle might shuffling along a dusty road. The night was so quiet you could hear things plain from a long ways off. It growed a little louder and a little nearer. And then it struck a plank bridge somewheres, and come acrost it with a clatter. Then I knowed it wasn't cattle. Cows and steers don't make that cantering kind of noise as a rule; they trot. It was hosses crossing that...
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Very Good+ No Jacket. First ed. 333 pp. + 16 illust. Hardcover, green cloth, 8vo., picture label at front board. Very Good+ copy, no dust jacket. Corners lightly worn; slight rubbing and wear at head and foot of spine; label clean. Owner's small note at fly leaf; pages have faded slightly, but text and illustrations are clean, bright and unmarked. Sound binding; mylar sleeve. 8vo.
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Good. First edition. Author's first book, in dialect. 16 "humorous" illustrations by E. W. Kemble with pictorial front board. Green cloth. Hinges starting, else good. No former owner marks. Context: Marquis' most famous work features a cockroach named Archie.
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