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Adrift in America 249: He was followed to the very verge of the wood, and then the exhausted ‘mossback’ left him to return to the house.at moss-back, n.
Adrift in America 249: He was followed to the very verge of the wood, and then the exhausted ‘mossback’ left him to return to the house. Adrift in America 54: As to methods there are two chief ones, the first the ‘Universal Ticket,’ and the other ‘Jumping the Blind Baggage’.at blind, n.2
Adrift in America 128: Here I jumped another train, and got ‘bounced’ at Bernalillo.at bounce, v.1
Adrift in America 66: The idea of begging, or ‘bumming,’ as it is popularly called out there, went strongly against my stomach.at bumming, n.
Adrift in America 211: ‘My luck again,’ said I [...] ‘and not a red cent to buy any more.’.at red cent, n.
Adrift in America 54: I acknowledge ‘the corn’ myself, as they say across the Atlantic, and I owe a few dollars.at corn, n.1
Adrift in America 55: It is no uncommon thing to see the conductor go along the train and look [...] for such unauthorised travellers. But these birds are too downy to be caught with such chaff.at downy, adj.1
Adrift in America 150: A man who was very flashily dressed, and had the appearance of being a ‘drummer’.at drummer, n.3
Adrift in America 205: All you have to do is put a good ‘front on,’ and waltz in with the crowd.at front, n.1
Adrift in America 209: I had not the grit even to try and board a freight train.at grit, n.1
Adrift in America 63: In the morning we were all roused out before daylight by somebody beating a kerosine tin, and shouting ‘hash-pile!’ [Ibid.] 205: I just sleep till the hash bell goes, and then I go in and eat.at hash, n.1
Adrift in America 130: A man [...] asked me if I would give him a hand to get a cook stove into a shanty where he was going to set up a ‘hash house’.at hash-house, n.
Adrift in America 75: When we got up to the house we were glad to find that the ‘Missis’ was up and had made a big pot of hot coffee for us.at missis, n.
Adrift in America 107: I have often spoken to tramps who had been in houses of correction [...] Often they will go round a circuit of many miles to escape [...] getting put on the ‘rock-pile’ as they call it.at rockpile, n.
Adrift in America 19: Some of his crew had left, and, as he termed it, ‘stuck him up,’ so he couldn’t do a ‘darned thing’ till he got some more.at stick up, v.4
Adrift in America 205: All you have to do is put a good ‘front on,’ and waltz in with the crowd.at waltz, v.
Adrift in America 124: I went over to the house and had a yarn with the depot agent.at yarn, n.
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