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‘Hobo Memories’ Hobo News Sept. in Stiff Milk and Honey Route (1930) 196: Have you forgotten Angeline, / Who lived behind the dump; / Where you and I in days gone by, / So often scoffed a lump?at lump, n.
‘Hobo Memories’ Hobo News Sept. in Stiff Milk and Honey Route (1930) 196: Have you forgotten Angeline, / Who lived behind the dump; / Where you and I in days gone by, / So often scoffed a lump? ‘The Ice Fields of Gray Goose Lake’ Nature: Human and Real in Stiff Milk and Honey Route (1930) 183: Burns flips a bright green bill.at bill, n.3
‘The Ice Fields of Gray Goose Lake’ Nature: Human and Real in Stiff Milk and Honey Route (1930) 182: After thirty days of this strenuous game, / Wilson was ready to ‘blow’.at blow, v.1
‘The Ice Fields of Gray Goose Lake’ Nature: Human and Real in Stiff Milk and Honey Route (1930) 182: Burns asked why he couldn’t wait a while, / And rake in a few more ‘seeds’.at seed, n.
Milk and Honey Route 206: Y.M.C.A, — You Must Come Across. The hobo expects nothing from the Y.M.C.A. that is not paid for.at You Must Come Across, n.
Milk and Honey Route 198: Alligator bait – Fried or stewed liver.at alligator bait (n.) under alligator, n.
Milk and Honey Route 152: At one time the hobo enjoyed almost exclusively the ‘French post cards’ (called ‘American cards’ in France).at American card (n.) under American, adj.
Milk and Honey Route 198: Anchor – A pick. Companion tool of the shovel or banjo.at anchor, n.
Milk and Honey Route 209: M. & C. – ‘Marmon and Cadillac,’ meaning morphine and cocaine.at M and C, n.
Milk and Honey Route 214: Song and dance – To give the madam at the backdoor an interesting and entertaining argument.at song and dance, n.1
Milk and Honey Route 199: Angelina – Punk or road kid acting as a hobo’s companion.at angelina, n.
Milk and Honey Route 35: Hobos are known for what they do, or do not do [...] Among the various harvest hands are the ‘apple knockers,’ the ‘berry glaumers,’ the ‘bundle tossers,’ the ‘potato rooters,’ and so on.at apple-knocker, n.
Milk and Honey Route 86: A spick-and-span house in a spick-and-span yard where everything is in apple-pie order is not always a good bet.at apple-pie order, n.
Milk and Honey Route 217: Wingey – Hobo with one arm or crippled arm. Also army.at army, n.1
Milk and Honey Route 35: A hobo who shears sheep is a ‘clipper artist’.at -artist, sfx
Milk and Honey Route 216: Trapeze artist – A hobo who rides the gunnells or rods.at trapeze artist, n.
Milk and Honey Route 38: A western contractor is known as ‘Ragged [naughty word] Smith’.at ragged-ass, n.
Milk and Honey Route 151: Silk stocking slummers have just about monopolized the baldheaded seats in the pit.at bald-headed row (n.) under bald-headed, adj.
Milk and Honey Route 207: Haywire – When everything is balled up.at balled-up, adj.
Milk and Honey Route 199: Banjo – A short-handled shovel.at banjo, n.1
Milk and Honey Route 198: Barnacle — A fellow who sticks to one job a year or more.at barnacle, n.1
Milk and Honey Route 201: Broad or brod – A woman, generally young and opposite of bat or blister, which means an old woman.at bat, n.1
Milk and Honey Route 199: Bazoo – Mouth. A term of derision. ‘Shut your bazoo!’.at bazoo, n.1
Milk and Honey Route 199: Beefer – One who whines. Sometimes an informer.at beefer (n.) under beef, v.1
Milk and Honey Route 38: Often a hobo camp cook, or ‘stew builder’ will be dubbed a ‘belly robber’ because of his zeal to save money for the boss.at belly burglar (n.) under belly, n.
Milk and Honey Route 35: Hobos are known for what they do, or do not do [...] One who works on wooden bridges and trestles is a ‘splinter belly’.at splinter belly, n.
Milk and Honey Route 199: A vest used to be called a ben.at ben, n.4
Milk and Honey Route 145: It is necessary [...] that he should own at least two outer coats, a slicker and a ‘benny’.at benny, n.1
Milk and Honey Route 18: In those days the hobo carried his bed for which he was known as the ‘bundle stiff’ or ‘bindle bo’.at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
Milk and Honey Route 206: Go with the birds—To go south for the winter.at go with the birds (v.) under bird, n.1
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