The Make-Out Room & Other Stories

Ramblin' Man was born in 1835 or thereabouts not too far from where you're now sitting or standing. Or lying down. I can't really tell what you're doing right now.

Anyway, his father was a trapeze artist in a small circus known as the Travelin' Dunderheads, and his mother was a seamstress in an ironworks factory. I don't know why they needed a seamstress in an ironworks factory; apparently, people split their britches a lot.

The circus troupe was in town for three days only, but on the second...