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Beadle's Pocket Library No. 385: The Boy Tramps

1891 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of Beadle and Adams' weekly magazine features "The Boy Tramps; The Roughs of Demon Hollow" by J. M. Hoffman. The narrative opens in rural Kentucky, where Jack, a ragged fifteen-year-old street musician with a violin, encounters Gipsy Templeton, the ten-year-old daughter of a plantation owner. Jack is a vagrant who escaped his abusive employer, Fernando Columbus, after experiencing a series of tragedies among other boys in his care. Gipsy befriends him and invites him to the house for food. When Jack attempts to ride a wild pony named Crimple, he is thrown and rendered unconscious. Mr. Templeton, Gipsy's widowed father, discovers the boy and assumes he is a horse thief, resolving to punish him severely upon recovery. The story combines adventure with domestic rural settings and street-life elements common to the period's serialized fiction.

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