Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking

A plantation below the city is the setting for a climax in "e;Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking."e; By means of a freight-car, Dick arrives in the "e;big, almsgiving, long-suffering city of the South, the cold weather paradise of tramps."e; After a cautious survey that includes the levee "e;pimpled with dark bulks of merchandise,"e; the long line of Algiers across the river, the tugs, the ferries and the Italian luggers, Dick climbs warily down and starts, whistling, toward Lafayette Square to meet a pal. But a friendly policeman warns Dick of a new and inhospitable city ordinance, and he departs hastily for the open road. A stall keeper in the French Market gives him breakfast, and he is almost happy until Chalmette with its "e;vast and bewildering industry"e; frightens him and drives him along a country road hemmed in on one side by the high green levee and on the other by a mysterious, frog-haunted, mosquito infested marsh ...