Vagabond Adventures

BOOK I. AMONG WHARVES AND CABINS. AEt. 11

BOOK II. THREE YEARS AS A NEGRO-MINSTREL. AEt. 12-15.

BOOK III. THE TOUR OF EUROPE FOR USD181 IN CURRENCY. AEt. 20-22.

VAGABOND ADVENTURES.

RALPH KEELER.

BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.
1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870,
BY RALPH KEELER,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.

TO

My old Friend

EDWARD P. BASSETT, Esq.,

This book is affectionately inscribed, with the wish, which is hardly a hope, that the public may take my Life half as easily and good-naturedly as he takes his own.

R. K.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I. AMONG WHARVES AND CABINS. Æt. 11.
CHAPTER I.
Prefatory	11
CHAPTER II.
Family Matters	14
CHAPTER III.
A Fugitive	23
CHAPTER IV.
A Stormy Time	34
CHAPTER V.
A Boy’s Paradise	47
CHAPTER VI.
The Contumely of Captains	54
CHAPTER VII.
Almost a Tragedy	62
CHAPTER VIII.
Taken Prisoner	71
CHAPTER IX.
Squalor	80
CHAPTER X.
A Final Triumph	90
BOOK II. THREE YEARS AS A NEGRO-MINSTREL. Æt. 12-15.
CHAPTER I.
My First Company	101
CHAPTER II.
I become a Beneficiary	108
CHAPTER III.
The Fate of the Serenaders	116
CHAPTER IV.
The Trials and Triumphs of the “Booker Troupe”	129
CHAPTER V.
The Last of the “Booker Troupe”	145
CHAPTER VI.
“The Mitchells”	156
CHAPTER VII.
On the Floating Palace	173
CHAPTER VIII.
Wild Life	187
CHAPTER IX.
The Performer Socially	205
CHAPTER X.
Adieu to the Stage	214
BOOK III. THE TOUR OF EUROPE FOR $181 IN CURRENCY. Æt. 20-22.
CHAPTER I.
Starting on a Cattle-Train	223
CHAPTER II.
Taking to European Ways	230
CHAPTER III.
Student Life and Wanderings	242
CHAPTER IV.
A Fight with Famine	254
CHAPTER V.
The Conclusion	266

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