New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-01
THE TRIBUNE.
Actters from zzrlrops......N No. XIV.
A CHAPTER ON aEGoARs.
Foreign Correspondence of The New-York Tribune.

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occasional beggars, made so by the hberahty OF
foreigners. Finding it is often but to ask to re-
ceivc, they will stop in the midst of their work
and beg for mere fraction of sous. But your
regular professional beggar is known in mo-
ment He has been accustomed to hear No and
nav no more attention TO it than if he did not
heari il. lie knows that perseverance conquers
all things, and that nearly every man will give
half a cent to be rid Of his Importantly. The
mode of begging varies according to the tempera-
ment Of the beggar. There is one perhaps mi
nus both legs, who is perfectly conscious that his
condition, as he sits helpless on the pavement at
your feet, appeals to your sympathics stronger
than his language, and simply holds his tattered
hat out as you pass. l know one such who has
acquired quite property. Then there is your
dramatic beggar who makes himself lamer than
he is, or rolls his blind eyes so as to give his most
revolving aspect, and appeals to you in language
and in voice most touching and pathetic. He
will tell you of his large family and their starva-
ton, and ask you for the love of God to give him
oael single copper A third lattcrs you, calling
you beautiful gentleman, and heaping on you
titles sufficient to satisfy the most ambitious. |
have often met an old woman of this class, who
smiles onme with most perfect good hurnor, and
throwing her head on one side coaxes me with
such tone and so many compliments that find
nay hand in my pocket before know it. Then
there is your graceless, ragged little urchin, who
Will crack his jaw and turn sorncrsets till you
really think he deserves a penny. No matter
how strongly you resolved at first against cncour-
aging the little rascal, after he has worked him.
self out of breath in tumbling for you, and comes
up smiling and demands only quarter for 1t all,
it does seem stingy not to give. You may have
told him TO stop and go away dozen times; it
matters not, such is Our nature, that if a man
pal play for u.s. we feel we ought to pay him.
There is another class that, conscious Of having
no particular claims in themselves upon your
charity, borrow wrctched babe or child, whose
misery Will plead for them. Sometimes you meet
a jolly beggar, but him you may Immediately
put down as beS-gar 81 fortune. Life with hun
has not been failure He is none Of your dis
appointed men. His business has always been
thriving, and he feels as he acts right kindly to-
ward you and all mankind, and why should Mt
he He has tlepropcrty, amassed from their
charity, and he is secure against +" a rainy day."
used to meet such one on the Pincian hill in
Rome. He was large, fat fellow with withercd
legs, so that he walked on his hands and knees
alone. In the morning nc would be down in the
heart of the city, but toward evening he station
ed himself on the last landing up the long flight
Of steps that lead to the hill and you ascended
advanced ON all-rours to the edge and with his
head erect, looking for all the world like large
mastt and showing most beautiful set of teeth
address you like familiar friend with ''Good
day, sir" 1t is fine weather to-day" or "lt
looks like ram" as the case may be. He was a
large, looking man, and it was hard to resist
dropping penny into his hat. He struck my
fancy amazingly, and | would often stop and
talk with him. One day asked him how much
he took per day. Cob" he said, ten or twelve
cents All, now,' replied, don't try to de-
celye me, for | am "a good friend; | shall give
you Just as much; won't tell any body; | want
70 know merely from curiosity" "Well," he
sid, "halfa dollar day, and oftcnmo more." This
acre is equal to dollar at homc.) This was GER
AMY good wages when it cost him but few
pence per day to live. "But," he added, "t this
Is only during the season when strangers visit
Rome. In the summer take very little" He
aen gave me long history of himself and of a
oonkey he owned, which he said was fastened
dpoye on the hill to ride home on when the days
work was finished. This man owned two or three
houses. lie seemed to consider me a sort Of con-
saerate after he told me his circumstances, and
Il happened to be passing up behind another
Stranger who refused to give him aims, he would
up me wink and smile and expect his copper
from me.
somuch for the beggars, and now for the mode
% Kidding ones self of them without bestowing
aas, for ii would impoversh prince to give to
su and every time they ask. | have tried vari
Uas % methods, but find scarcely no rule universal.
il'eals are quite useless, for they know you can
l'' hnd 1t IN your hcaGt to cane them, and if you
10 you will most certainly give them penny to
ayior 1t. They will dodge it, ii is true, but not
Nsleat. Sometimes " niente" (nothing) spoken
WITH perfect sang fToid, viii convince them that
you have been long enough in Italy to under
wand their habits, and they will leave, If they
sal persist, a nintendete % don't you under.
Sahd , will sometimes relieve you. If they
SUI dog your footsteps, as some impudent urchns
WI 90, slight tap of the cane by way of pre-
ace is the only resort. Sometimes to point the
~ naser and cry shame" will send them Off
taese is another mode, the secret of which l do
-" understand, but which is more etfectual than
s4 It's to say first nicnte," and if they per.
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