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2023
Language: English
BY
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Author of "The House-Boat on the Styx," Etc.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
JNO. R. NEILL
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1916
Copyright, 1916, by
The Century Co.
Copyright, 1915, by
Associated Sunday Magazines Incorporated
TO
THAT WISE COUNSELLOR
AND STERLING FRIEND
J. HENRY HARPER
PREFATORY NOTE
I could not let these random notes of a delightful experience go
forth into the world without expressing in some way my deep
appreciation of the valued services rendered me in my ten years of
platform work by my friends of the Lyceum Bureaus. In office and in
the field they have labored strenuously, often affectionately, and
always loyally, on my behalf. But for their interest some of the most
cherished experiences of my life would have been beyond my reach.
If sometimes in their zeal to keep me busy they have booked me in
Winnipeg on Monday night, in New Orleans on Tuesday night, with
little side-trips to San Diego, California, and Presque Isle, Maine, on
Wednesday and Thursday, not to mention grand finales at Omaha
and Key West on Friday and Saturday, I view that sequence rather
as a tribute to my agility than as a matter to be unduly captious
about. It is a manifestation of a confidence in my powers to
overcome the limitations of time and space that I think upon with an
expanding head, if not with a swelling heart, and whether this
required annihilation of distance has been wholly agreeable or not it
has enabled me to see more of my own country than I otherwise
could have seen, and to that extent, I hope, has made a better
American of me.
Wherefore before beginning our ramble from Pillar to Post I record
here in testimony of my gratitude to them the names of Arthur C.
Coit, and Louis J. Alber, of the Coit Lyceum Bureau of Cleveland,
Ohio; of Frank A. Morgan, of the Mutual Lyceum Bureau, of Chicago;
of Kenneth M. White, of the White Entertainment Bureau of Boston;
of S. Russell Bridges, of the Alkahest Lyceum System of Atlanta,
Georgia; of J. B. Pond, Jr., and that tried friend both in the Lyceum
field and out of it, William C. Glass, of the J. B. Pond Lyceum Bureau
of New York.
Thanks are due to the publishers of Every Week for courtesies
extended, and finally I desire to inscribe a word of affectionate
esteem for my friends, J. Thomson Willing, and that inspiring
editorial guide and mentor, William A. Taylor, of the Associated
Sunday Magazines, under whose genial direction these papers were
first presented to the public.
John Kendrick Bangs.
CONTENTS
PAGE
I GETTING USED TO IT 3
II SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY 23
III GETTING THE LEVEL 40
IV THE GOOD SAMARITAN 61
V A VAGRANT POET 83
VI BACK-HANDED COMPLIMENTS 98
VII FRIENDS OF THE ROAD 116
VIII CHAIRMEN I HAVE MET 134
IX CHANCE ACQUAINTANCES 155
X HUMORS OF THE ROAD 175
XI MINE HOST 196
XII PERILS OF THE PLATFORM 220
XIII EMBARRASSING MOMENTS 243
XIV "SLINGS AND ARROWS" 266
XV EMERGENCIES 290
XVI A PIONEER MANAGER 318
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
"I shall have to borrow some of your manly courage to
Frontispiece
carry me through"
"It was indeed a pretty sight to me!" 21
"Yes, and you are fifty years behind us in every other
28
respect!"
I knew that I had met a "Southern Gentleman" 31
"The consciously superior person cannot last long on
43
the lecture platform"
"If there's anything you want to know about Darwin's
60
Origin of Species, you ask me!"
"I cannot say that his first remark was wholly cordial" 70
"I'm an Ohio man, and I'll cash the check for you on
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your looks"
In the last stages of poverty 85
"Suffering Centipedes!" he cried. "That man must have
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been brought up on the bottle!"
"The lecturer must deliver the goods!" 100
"They may 'go to sleep in his face'" 103
"I have been after 'em, suh; but it ain't no use" 122
"These men on the engines are great characters" 130
"Pile it on so thick that the lecturer has to struggle hard
136
to make good"
"The last I saw of my kindly host" 145
"When he got through I could have qualified for a
162
college degree on the subject of straw hats"
"She ast me was you so very comical," said he 171
"If yo're dealin' in brains, hit ain't likely yo' got enough
185
to gib any away"
"A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Locomotives
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would have had them indicted then and there"
"If it were possible to sweep a room clean with a
199
welcoming wave of the hand—"
"Cannot sleep comfortably between the sheets of
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William James's pragmatic philosophy, dry as they are"
"If he had shifted his chewing gum to the other side,
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we should have plunged into the river"
"Laughter where tears would have been more
239
appropriate"
"I found the building wholly dark" 247
"But what was the point of this little joke last night? 264
"My grinning countenance stared back at me
276
unflinchingly"
"I was the sudden recipient of a blow on top of my
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head"
"A craving to settle lingering doubts as to my right to
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be there"