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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Introduction to the 2024 Edition xvii
5. Preface to the 1974 Edition xxix
6. The Toast World 1
7. The Toasts 39
8. Badmen, Crime, and Jail
9. Stackolee 43
10. Stackolee in Hell 55
11. Brock Hankton 58
12. Dolomite 61
13. Jesse James 67
14. Boothill McCoy 69
15. Herman from the Shark-Tooth Shore 72
16. My Reflection (The Wanderer’s Trail; All You Tough Guys that Thinks You’re Wise) 76
17. Feeble Old Man (Feeble Old Man and a Kid Named Dan) 81
18. Subject to a Fall 87
19. Derringer Youngblood 89
20. Satan’s Playground of Hell 91
21. Eddie LeDoux 93
22. Limpty Lefty McCree 97
23. I Was Sittin’ in the Jail to Do a Stretch of Time 100
24. They Can’t Do That 102
25. Life of a Junkie 104
26. Pimps, Whores, and Other Lovers and Friends
27. Joe the Grinder and G.I. Joe 113
28. Hobo Ben 117
29. Treacherous Breast 119
30. Three Whores Settin’ Down in Boston 122
31. Pimping Sam (Wicked Nell; The Pimp) 124
32. Hustlin’ Dan 135
33. Ping Pong Joe 138
34. Don't Look So Downhearted, Buddy (Don't Feel So Downhearted, Buddy) 140
35. Sweet Lovin’ Rose 144
36. Strange, Strange Things 150
37. You Told Me a Lie 152
38. Cocaine Nell 153
39. L.A. Street 155
40. The Lame and the Whore 158
41. Toledo Slim 161
42. Pretty Pill 165
43. Dogass Pimp 168
44. Ain’t It a Bitch? 171
45. If You See My Little Girl in Denver (Lady Liberty) 173
46. Corner of Forty-seventh and South Park (Little Old Wicked Nell) 175
47. Little Girl in the Gambler’s Nest (While Playing Short Coin) 178
48. Winehead Girl 182
49. Freaks and Supersex
50. Dance of the Freaks 187
51. Freaks’ Ball(Twenty-Two-Twenty; Bulldaggers’ Hall) 191
52. ’Flicted Arm Pete (Pisspot Pete) 194
53. Casey Jones 198
54. Cocaine Shorty 200
55. Herbert Hoover 201
56. The Voodoo Queen 202
57. Marie 205
58. Annabelle Jones 208
59. Signifying and Poolshooting Monkey
60. Signifying Monkey 213
61. Poolshooting Monkey 226
62. Partytime Monkey 234
63. The Titanic Toasts
64. Titanic 239
65. Miscellaneous Narratives
66. Ups on the Farm 261
67. I Got a Job Down in Florida for Croft 263
68. Once I Lived the Life of a Millionaire (Down and Out) 265
69. Life’s a Funny Old Proposition 268
70. Hoboes’ Convention 270
71. Junkies’ Ball 273
72. Junkies’ Heaven 276
73. Hophead Willie 278
74. Willie the Weeper 281
75. T.B. Bees 284
76. The Chintz 286
77. The Fly 288
78. The Alphabet 290
79. The Seven Wise Men 292
80. Get In out of the Rain 293
81. Drinkin’ 295
82. Convict’s Prayer 296
83. Pearl Harbor 297
84. Hitler, You Lied to Me 299
85. I Used to Be a Cowboy 301
86. I Woke Up this Morning with a Hard On 302
87. Ringo 304
88. Through the Keyhole in the Door 306
89. Short Verses and Drinking Toasts
90. Short Verses 311
91. Drinking Toasts 318
92. Bibliography 325
93. Index 329
94. Index of First Lines 333