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Updated: May 15, 2025
I had lost so much money by exchange from the paper currency of Peru to the gold of California, that I needed time to replenish my almost depleted purse. We decided that we would wait one year, meanwhile I would go to Arizona and run an engine on the railroad east of Tuscon.
I saw bleached bones and a side-cast skull with whitened horns, poking up into the sky ... I saw a sick steer straggling alone, exactly like some melodramatic painting of Western life ... the kind we see hanging for sale in second-rate art stores. I stuck till Tuscon was reached. There I was all in for lack of food and water.... A woman gave me a good "set-down" at her kitchen table.
"No, I'm going to stick in here till I reach El Paso, if I can." "What's the fun bein' a bum, if you're goin' ter punish yerself like that!" "I want to find a country where there's growing green things, as soon as I can." "So long, then." "So long.. don't you think you'd better stick till we reach Tuscon? "Naw, I'll take my chances."
In my inside pocket, a sheaf of poor verse I had barely as yet come to grips with my art and, in an outside pocket, the Bible I had filched from the woman's sewing machine in Tuscon. The finding of the Bible on my person created a speechless pause. Then "Good Gawd! A bum with a Bible!" Awe and respect held the crowd for a moment. The march began. "Where are you taking us to?" "To the calaboose."
"From ther other side over there ther Israelites started for Canaan, didn't they?" "I believe so," was Sedgwick's reply. "It must uv been like goin' from Tuscon to Fort Yuma in August, don't yo' think, Jim?" said Jordan. "Very like, I believe," said Sedgwick.
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