These Transients had the understanding and listening skills of trained psychologists and offered unto him a piece of bubble gum instead which he gratefully accepted.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
One of the other five Transients was repulsed by a spider that crept onto him in its effort to escape the rain, cursed at a rock in his shoe that would not leave the obscure crevice of the sole, and then in one of his shifting moods made a declaration of happiness that they had found such an inconspicuous spot where the police rarely harassed them.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
Otherwise they slept in the sky-vaulted court among the four-footed Transients, for what men on the torrid Gulf coast would allow his beast more fresh air than himself?
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle