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A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity
"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These adventures convey and illustrate the rules of beggary for poets and some others."
Published in 1919, this is poet Vachel Lindsay's description of his travels "afoot and penniless" across the southern and eastern United States, staying with strangers, reciting or trading poetry for dinner, and along the way, describing in stories and poetry, mostly stories, the people and places he encountered. Think "Travels With Charlie," minus the dog...
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Part 2.13, "A Mendicant Pilgrimage in the East."
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And that's the end of the book. Now I'll be sad for a while, I think. And then find another book. What adventure awaits? "God help us to...
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