Word: vagabondism
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...never realized it before, but the Vagabond has relatives. Two in particular. These two are gentlemen: one second cousin on his mother's side and an uncle-by-marriage. Three weeks ago they assailed the Vagabond's serenity (at that time he was tasting the wicked but delectable fruits of a class-cutting spree) by sending him letters on the same day. Each letter demanded in slightly officious terms, peculiar to the writing of middle-aged college men, that he obtain a ticket to the Harvard-Yale game for "your loving Cousin Arthur" and for "your ever-faithful Uncle Henry...
Rapidly the Vagabond became ruffled and confused and irritable. Many months past, beneath the light of a summer moon, he had persuaded a West Virginia lass to accompany him to the sport event of the autumn. Then November twentieth did not seem more than a week away. But that was then. Now, the thoughts in his mind assembled in one spiritual ball reverberating with excited words: he would be obliged to take one girl and two relatives to a game which he wished fervently he could watch alone. Contemplating a sudden change of name, or flight, or amuesia anything...
...them descend from different Pullmans at the same moment. Rushing to the uncle on the right, he cried, "Wait a minute, Cousin Arthur is approaching on my left!" His uncle-by-marriage looked startled and gave the porter only a quarter instead of fifty cents. Already the Vagabond had raced one Pullman length and accosted his cousin. "Hello," he shrieked. "Come hurry with me, your uncle is waiting on my right." Before he could speak, the Vagabond had herded him and his uncle into the automobile...
...with a look approaching condescension and a tone faintly suggestive of superior indifference, "YOU went to Yale? My, my, I am not sure if that is an insult to you or one to Yale!" His cousin was biting his lip to make his retort sharper when the Vagabond spoke: "Gentlemen, I must stop here a minute to fetch my girl...
Today at ten o'clock the Vagabond will attend Perry Miller's lecture on "Almanacs" in Harvard...