Excerpt from G. T. T: Or, the Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman
More than a generation ago, a common joke - one of the commonest - represented that when an insolvent debtor, or a rough who had been engaged in an "unpleasantness," or any other loafer who had changed his home, wished to leave warning behind him where he had gone, he chalked upon his door the letters
G. T. T.
These letters were in no sort mysterious. They meant and were understood to mean, "Gone to Texas."
Old enough to remember their use, when they were quite as intelligible as A.S.S. or LL.D., I have been amused and surprised to see that this generation does not know what they mean, and that a word of preface is needed to explain.
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