Henry O. 
Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking 

A plantation below the city is the setting for a climax in ‘Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking.’ By means of a freight-car, Dick arrives in the ‘big, almsgiving, long-suffering city of the South, the cold weather paradise of tramps.’ After a cautious survey that includes the levee ‘pimpled with dark bulks of merchandise, ‘ 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 ‘vast and bewildering industry’ 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 …