Word: vagabonde
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...Vagabond, returning to his proper business after a too long sojourn in fields remote, has been meditating on certain great men of the past. He has run his eye over the scroll of worthies, all great men in their time, sons of thunder, shakers of the earth,--and now forgotten. Like all of the Vagabond's musings, this one had an external stimulus and efficient cause, though the upshot is as the spirit listeth. For the Vagabond has been casually reading some minor English poets, men whose names are known to all, their works to none, or whose immortality...
...flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la" crooned the Vagabond as he trudged through the slush toward Plympton Street. He doubled his fists a little closer into the pockets of his Chesterfield and tried to think of the "Transmission of Heat." Professor Black transmits heat, he thought; but this night is air-cooled. One really should give Professor Black a break, though perhaps it would be better to wait for "Heaviside Calculus." Yes, "Heaviside Calculus" would be a much more fanciful subject than "Transmission of Heat," lectures being what they are, and there would be no temptation to introduce...
...gentle readers, across the shimmering floor, through the French doors, you may see the Vagabond by the punch bowl, and now again, O greater Audience, look up from your coffee and rolls, and there he is, ordering his own coffee and rolls. Look well, ye, for now he is more easily seen than he will be soon again...
...Vagabond found that Philosophy, and Ethics in particular, led directly into the records of the British Parliament, and he was just patriotic enough to smile. On the other hand, the documents of the United States Government developed out of Anthropology; a fact which be thought might have pleased that Secretary of State who did so much to swell them, William Jennings Bryan. One of the most apt arrangements to his mind, however, was Religion, Bibles, and Explosives together...
...fifth floor, the progression of subjects gave rise to some speculation. Beginning with Archaeology and the Classics, it continues by way of church History to Folk Lore, Legends and Superstition. What puzzled the Vagabond was which end was the top and which the bottom. While he was still wondering the man who washes the floors (for the charwomen are long since departed) came and liberated...