Word: vagabonde
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...bloomin' blue" men are like to be caught unawares and say things they don't quite mean. Especially at such times are they wont to confer upon women powers which are not theirs to possess. And--for such are women--they will not help them in their blindness. The Vagabond would like leave to amplify this thought, for in the past, he, along with countless others, has been in error upon this subject of the powers of spring...
Spring brings out the doxy in a woman. This word doxy is a perfectly respectable word for the Vagabond found it in a Supreme Court decision handed down by a most learned judge. In the naked puritanism of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary it means "an undesirable sweetheart," one of those beguiling paradoxes into which the tortured paths of puritanism may lead us. But for those beyond the academic halls it signified merely a woman who is "no better than she ought...
...Crazy Mary could not thus be circumvented. With remarkable agility she too paddled across the concrete, catching the Vagabond neatly beside the iron gate. She mumbled rather than spoke in a high cracked treble, and the Vagabond gazed fascinated at the cold and miserable witch who stood before...
...help me, sor"--she began, fidgeting the while, but the Vagabond had already melted with compassion. He dug deep into his pocket, found the coin, gave it to the old woman, and passed on. Her thanks were a mumbled blessing, and she hurried to recross the street, for there was another pedestrian approaching--A pedestrian whose saddle shoes were new, whose bow tie was immaculate, and whose pockets were, no doubt, deeper...
...Vagabond shifted his green bag to a more secure position and splashed forward through the gloom. There are, be thought, far too many Crazy Mary's in this world. There is also too much snow...