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Updated: May 21, 2025
A frowzy old hobo poked a somnolent head up from a pile of lumber near the tracks and yawned welcome to the recruit. "Hello, Slim. How's tricks?" "Pretty good. What's the best section to batter for a poke-out, Billy?" "To the right, over that way, and straight out." "Much 'bliged," said Slim erstwhile Ericson. "Say, j' know of any jobs in this " "Any whats?" "Jobs." "Jobs?
A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time. I know that I missed many a meal, in spite of the fact that I could "throw my feet" with the next one when it came to "slamming a gate" for a "poke-out" or a "set-down," or hitting for a "light piece" on the street.
The greater part of 1874 was spent abroad first travelling through Savoy and by the Riviera to Assisi, where he wrote to Miss S. Beever: "The Sacristan gives me my coffee for lunch in his own little cell, looking out on the olive woods; then he tells me stories of conversions and miracles, and then perhaps we go into the sacristy and have a reverent little poke-out of relics.
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