Between 1893 and 1899 Davies spent time drifting, begging and taking on seasonal work in America and Canada. He spent a cold Michigan winter in jail, floated down the Mississippi on a house-boat and crossed the Atlantic Ocean as a cattleman. We're introduced to Brum, New Haven Baldy, Australian Red, Cockney More, Scotty as well as to Three Fingered Jack who was with Davies when he fell and crushed his foot while jumping a freight train in Renfrew, Ontario - his lower leg had to be amputated but his tramping and walking days were far from over.

• Cover
• Publisher’s Introduction
• Frontspiece
• Preface by G. Bernard Shaw
• Childhood
• Youth
• Manhood
• Brum
• A Tramp’s Summer Vacation
• A Night’s Ride
• Law in America
• A Prisoner his own Judge
• Berry Picking
• The Cattleman’s Office
• A Strange Cattleman
• Thieves
• The Canal
• The House-Boat
• A Lynching
• The Camp
• Home
• Off Again
• A Voice in the Dark
• Hospitality
• London
• The Ark
• Gridling
• On the Downright
• The Farmhouse
• Rain and Poverty
• False Hopes
• On Tramp Again
• A Day’s Companion
• The Fortune
• Some Ways of Making a Living
• At Last
• Success
• A House to Let