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Title: Bohemian Days
Three American Tales

Author: Geo. Alfred Townsend

Release Date: September 15, 2006 [EBook #19288]

Language: English

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BOHEMIAN DAYS

*Three American Tales*

BY
GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND
_"GATH"_

"And David arose and fled to Gath. And he changed his behavior. And
every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and
every one that was discontented gathered themselves unto him. And
the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a
full year and four months."

H. CAMPBELL & CO., Publishers,
NO. 21 PARK ROW,
NEW YORK

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880,
By GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

THE BURR PRINTING HOUSE
AND STEAM TYPE-SETTING OFFICE,
Cor. Frankfort and Jacob Sts.,
NEW YORK.

TO TEN FRIENDS AT DINNER,

GILSEY HOUSE, NEW YORK,

APRIL 21, 1879;

WHO MADE THIS PUBLICATION

_A PROMISE AND AN OBLIGATION_.

PREFACE.

So far from the first tale in this book being of political motive, it
was written among the subjects of it, and read to several of them in
1864. Perhaps the only _souvenir_ of refugee and "skedaddler" life
abroad during the war ever published, its preservation may one day be
useful in the socialistic archives of the South, to whose posterity
slavery will seem almost a mythical thing. With as little bias in the
second tale, I have etched the young Northern truant abroad during the
secession. The closing tale, more recently written, in the midst of
constant toil and travel, is an attempt to recall an old suburb, now
nearly erased and illegible by the extension of a great city, and may be
considered a home American picture about contemporary with the European
tales.

CONTENTS.

SHORT NOVELS.

THE REBEL COLONY IN PARIS 13

MARRIED ABROAD