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Title: A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others

Author: F. Hopkinson Smith

Release Date: February 7, 2005 [EBook #14967]

Language: English

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A GENTLEMAN VAGABOND
AND SOME OTHERS

BY

F. HOPKINSON SMITH

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

1895

_INTRODUCTORY NOTE_

_There are gentlemen vagabonds and vagabond gentlemen. Here and there one
finds a vagabond pure and simple, and once in a lifetime one meets a
gentleman simple and pure._

_Without premeditated intent or mental bias, I have unconsciously to
myself selected some one of these several types,--entangling them in the
threads of the stories between these covers._

_Each of my readers can group them to suit his own experience._

F.H.S. NEW YORK, 150 E. 34TH ST.

CONTENTS

PAGE
A GENTLEMAN VAGABOND 1
A KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOR 36
JOHN SANDERS, LABORER 67
BAeADER 82
THE LADY OF LUCERNE 102
JONATHAN 126
ALONG THE BRONX 141
ANOTHER DOG 147
BROCKWAY'S HULK 160

A GENTLEMAN VAGABOND

I

I found the major standing in front of Delmonico's, interviewing a large,
bare-headed personage in brown cloth spotted with brass buttons. The major
was in search of his very particular friend, Mr. John Hardy of Madison
Square, and the personage in brown and brass was rather languidly
indicating, by a limp and indecisive forefinger, a route through a section
of the city which, correctly followed, would have landed the major in the
East River.

I knew him by the peculiar slant of his slouch hat, the rosy glow of his
face, and the way in which his trousers clung to the curves of his
well-developed legs, and ended in a sprawl that half covered his