OF DECISIONS, MINIBILES, AND TINUGRAPHS
OF DECISIONS, MINIBILES, AND TINUGRAPHSI thought I could do the walk of some eighty miles in four days, allowing time to swap work for food, supposing I found farmers or housewives agreeable to the exchange. June made it no hardship to sleep outdoors, and the old post road ran close enough to the Hudson for any bathing I might want to do.
The dangers of the trip were part of the pattern of life in the United States in 1938. I didnt particularly fear being robbed by a roving g**g for I was sure organized predators would disdain so obviously unprofitable a prey, and individual thieves I felt I could take care of, but I was not anxious to be picked up as a vagrant by any of the three police forces, national, state, or local. As a freeman I was more ex
