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Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955
I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffle bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled
north to Santa Barbara. |
Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I
got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head and my knees crossed
and contemplated the clouds as we rolled north to Santa Barbara.
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It was a local and I intended to sleep on the beach at Santa Barbara that night
and catch either another local to San Luis Obispo the next morning or the first class freight all the way to San Francisco at 7
p.m. at night.
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It was a local and I intended to sleep on the beach at Santa Barbara that night and
catch either another local to San Luis Obispo the next morning or the firstclass freight
all the way to San
Francisco at seven p.m.
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Somewhere near Camarillo where Charley Parker'd been mad and relaxed back to normal health,
a thin old little bum climbed into my gondola as we headed into a siding to give a train right of way and looked surprised to see me there.
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Somewhere near Camarillo where Charlie Parker'd been mad and relaxed back to normal
health, a thin old little bum climbed into my gondola as we headed into a siding to
give a train right of way and looked surprised to see me there.
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He established him- self at the other end of the gondola and lay down, facing me,
with his head on his own miserably small little pack and said nothing.
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He established himself at the other end of the gondola and lay down, facing me, with
his head on his own miserably small pack and said nothing.
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By and by they blew the highball whistle after the eastbound freight hadsmashed through on the main line and we pulled out as it got colder and fog began to blow from the sea over the warm valleys of the coast.
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By and by they blew the highball whistle after the eastbound freight had smashed through
on the main line and we pulled out as the air got colder and fog began to blow from
the sea over the warm valleys of the coast.
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Both the little bum and I, after unsuccessful attempts to huddle on the cold steel
in wraparounds, got up and paced back and forth and jumped and flapped arms at each our end of the gon.
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Both the little bum and I, after unsuccessful attempts to huddle on the cold steel
in wraparounds, got up and paced back and forth and jumped and flapped arms at each
our end of the gon.
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Pretty soon we headed into "another siding at a small railroad town and I figured I needed a poor-boy of tokay wine to complete the cold dusk run to Santa Barbara.
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Pretty soon we headed into another siding at a small railroad town and I figured I
needed a poor-boy of Tokay wine to complete the cold dusk run to Santa Barbara.
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"Will you watch my pack while I run over there across the highway and get a bottle of wine?"
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"Will you watch my pack while I run over there and get a bottle of wine?"
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"Sure thing."
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"Sure thing."
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I jumped over the side and ran over across highway 101 to the store, and bought, besides wine, a little bread and candy.
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I jumped over the side and ran across Highway 101 to the store, and bought, besides
wine, a little bread and candy.
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I ran back to my freight train which had another 15 minutes to wait in the now warm sunny scene.
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I ran back to my freight train which had another fifteen minutes to wait in the now
warm sunny scene.
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But it was late afternoon and bound to get cold soon.
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But it was late afternoon and bound to get cold soon.
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The little bum was sitting crosslegged at his end before a pitiful repast of one can of sardines.
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The little bum was sitting crosslegged at his end before a pitiful repast of one can
of sardines.
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I took pity on him and went over and said: "How about a little wine to warm you up. Maybe you'd like some bread and cheese with your sardines."
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I took pity on him and went over and said, "How about a little wine to warm you up? Maybe you'd like some bread and cheese with
your sardines."
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*inline gray scratchHopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955*belowline blue caret*belowline blue comma
I got on a gondola and lay down with my duff*inline blue squigglele bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled
north to Santa Barbara. |
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*aboveline blue swoosh*aboveline blue The TrainIt was a local*inline gray semicolon and I intended to sleep on the beach at Santa Barbara that night
and catch either another local to San Luis Obispo the next morning or the first*inline gray circle class freight all the way to San Francisco at *inline gray circle7
*inline gray slashp.m. *inline gray lineat night*inline gray slash.
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Somewhere near Camarillo where *aboveline blue CharlieCharley Parker'd been mad and relaxed back to normal health,
a thin old little*aboveline gray check bum climbed into my gondola as we headed into a siding to give a train right of way*belowline gray comma*belowline gray caret and looked surprised to see me there.
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He established him- self at the other end of the gondola and lay down, facing me,
with his head on his own miserably small *inline blur gray*aboveline gray check*aboveline blur bluelittle pack and said nothing.
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By and by they blew the *aboveline gray circle*inline line gray*belowline gray carethighball *aboveline gray highballwhistle after the eastbound freight had*inline gray slashsmashed through on the main line*belowline gray comma*belowline gray caret and we pulled out as *aboveline gray the air*inline gray sribbleit got colder and fog began to blow from the sea over the warm valleys of the coast.
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Both the little bum and I, after unsuccessful attempts to huddle on the cold steel
in wrap*aboveline gray swoosh*belowline gray swoosharounds, got up and paced back and forth and jumped and flapped arms*belowline gray caret*belowline gray comma *inline blue bracketat each *inline gray scribbleour end of the *aboveline blue circlegon.
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Pretty soon we headed into "another siding at a small railroad town*belowline gray caret*belowline gray comma and I figured I needed a poor-boy of *belowline gray linestokay wine to complete the cold dusk run to Santa Barbara.
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"Will you watch my pack while I run over there *inline gray lineacross the highway*inline gray slash and get a bottle of wine?"
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"Sure thing."
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*inline gray paragraph symbolI jumped over the side and ran *inline blue circleover across *belowline blue lineshighway 101 to the store, and bought, besides wine, a little bread and candy.
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I ran back to my freight train*belowline gray caret*belowline gray comma which had another *inline blue circle15 minutes to wait *inline blue circlein the *inline blue bracket*inline blue linenow warm sunny scene*inline blue slash.
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*inline blue caret*inline blue swooshBut it was late afternoon and bound to get cold soon.
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The little bum was sitting crosslegged at his end*inline blue caret*inline blue swoosh*aboveline blue of the gon before a pitiful repast of one can of sardines.
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I took pity on him and went over and said:*belowline gray swoosh "How about a little wine to warm you up*aboveline blue swoosh*aboveline blue scribble. Maybe you'd like some bread and cheese with your sardines."
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