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._