TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Childhood - the break - leaving home
Chapter 2 On the road - meeting with Curly
Chapter 3 Learning tramp lore - encounter with Frenchy
Chapter 4 A handout - en route to Louisville
Chapter 5 Mooching - phoney jewelry - Curly's spree
Chapter 6 Reform school - Reformatory - parole
Chapter 7 Rambling, peddling, and watching Soapy
Chapter 8 Grasshoppers - farewell to Curly - barbering
Chapter 9 Marriage, sort of - boxing - a variety of jobs
Chapter 10 Patent medicine, prospecting, and blighted love
Chapter 11 Wanderings with Michael J. and Tony
Chapter 12 Selling nuggets - how to kidnap a gaycat
Chapter 13 Sheep; a musical interlude; marriage to Mary, and her exit; a girl named Louise; the big quake; marriage to Louise - respectability at last
Chapter 14 Reflections on the wondrous world of Trampdom
Appendices
Appendix A. Rebecca "Carrie" Jane Billings Everson, inventor
Appendix B. Comments by Jack's daughter, Alice Weiss Everson
Appendix C. Postscript by the Editor