As to that night, I slept in that room in the corner away from the fireplace. One comfort was over me, one comfort and pillow between me and the dark floor.… There was every reason to infer that the pillow and comfort came from my [hosts’ own] bed. They slept far away, in some mysterious part of the empty house. I hoped they were not cold. I looked into the rejoicing fire. I said: “This is what I came out into the wilderness to see. This man had nothing, and gave me half of it, and we both had abundance.” —From A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity (1919) by
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