FOOTNOTES:
[1] So long.
[2] Live well.
[3] The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad—called "The Dope" because it is so greasy.
[4] A peddler of bogus jewelry.
[5] In Germany and England the tramps usually eat their set-downs in cheap restaurants or at lodging-houses. They beg money to pay for them, rather than look for them at private houses.
[6] It is most interesting to talk with Eastern tramps in the West who are homeward bound. If they have been in the West long, and look rather "seedy," and you ask them where they are going to in the East, they invariably reply: "Gosh! P. A., o' course. We wants to fatten up, we does." And there is no better place for this than Pennsylvania.
[7] Dr. Berthold is a well-known statistician, writer, and authority on matters pertaining to German labor colonies.
[8] The "bible" is tramp slang for the hawker's little parcel of things which he is supposed to peddle.
[9] The Horn is a bit of railway in Iowa, extending from Red Oak southward for about twenty miles, then northwest for twenty more. It is used principally for long trains, as the main line from Red Oak to Pacific Junction is too hilly.
[10] Doctor.
[11] Sacramento.
[12] Nickname.
[13] Kansas City.