The Mist and the Tramp Tale in One Fragment
A mixed excerpt blends Owen St Clair's mist poem with a long St Louis reporter’s travelogue of tramp life westward. The verses describe white rising mist over sea and shore while a figure appears in the mist, followed by a reader’s-eyed narrative of a perilous rail journey with tramps, meals of corn and potatoes, and precarious freight-car rides.
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A Dutch Victory Provokes Town Laughs in Saloon
A crowd in a saloon heard a drunken German joke about a waterworks and a mill explosion. Laughter rose as the tale grew wilder, ending with a boast that the water splashed and the mill burned, amid raucous chit chat and hoots.
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