A GENTLEMAN VAGABOND
AND SOME OTHERS

BY

F. HOPKINSON SMITH



NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS




1895




_INTRODUCTORY NOTE_


_There are gentlemen vagabonds and vagabond gentlemen. Here and there one
finds a vagabond pure and simple, and once in a lifetime one meets a
gentleman simple and pure._

_Without premeditated intent or mental bias, I have unconsciously to
myself selected some one of these several types,--entangling them in the