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BOHEMIAN DAYS

Three American Tales

BY

GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND

"GATH"

"And David arose and fled to Gath. And he changed his behavior. Andevery one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, andevery one that was discontented gathered themselves unto him. Andthe time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was afull year and four months."

H. CAMPBELL & CO., Publishers,
No. 21 Park Row,
NEW YORK

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880,
By GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

The Burr Printing House
and Steam Type-setting Office,
Cor. Frankfort and Jacob Sts.,
NEW YORK.

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TO TEN FRIENDS AT DINNER,

Gilsey House, New York,

April 21, 1879;

WHO MADE THIS PUBLICATION

A PROMISE AND AN OBLIGATION.

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PREFACE.

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So far from the first tale in this book being of political motive, itwas written among the subjects of it, and read to several of them in1864. Perhaps the only souvenir of refugee and "skedaddler" lifeabroad during the war ever published, its preservation may one day beuseful in the socialistic archives of the South, to whose posterityslavery will seem almost a mythical thing. With as little bias in thesecond tale, I have etched the young Northern truant abroad during thesecession. The closing tale, more recently written, in the midst ofconstant toil and travel, is an attempt to recall an old suburb, nownearly erased and illegible by the extension of a great city, and may beconsidered a home American picture about contemporary with the Europeantales.