Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-07-31
lEr1rR FROM A TRAMP.
New reisss that Will - Read With
Interest by rramps who Never
Take the Read.

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Interest by rramps who Never
Take the Resd.
To the Editor Of the Sua-Sir I'm
q rsg'lar tramp. an out an outer, and I
want TO say somsthin' in the paper.
What have I got TO say? Well. . good
deal. I amt read the papers much for
a long time, but I know BY the way the
gal in the kitchen door and the boy in
the barn yard talk that the papers have
been a goin' for us. We ail't no pro.
ducers. We amt I; we're cumbersn .
n~uisances and dead beats and highway
robbers. That's what We are.
All right, Mr.. Editor. But I hope
you'll let . fellow put In q lick for him.
self and his class. Perhaps you think
never had any bringing up. and don't
know anything about bellies lsttrss or
GOOD taste, and amt got no palate Tor
esthetics. What do ! say "dinf 9ot no
palate" for, IL I know anything about
bellies is,tresr Well. III tell you. It's
easier. I've got into that shifless way.
II I was to quote poetry to Q servant gal
shs,d think I was crazy and slan the
door In my face. Don't make any mis-
take about me on account Of my gram.
mar. It'd take too much time to rscol-
lsct all about the verbs and such. and 1
want to write Just a. / talk.
amt no drunken loafsr. No. sir.
I got my red face out In the sun. l
wouldn't o had II II I'd stack 70 the pull.
ri, or literature. IhAin't done . hands
turn o. work for ten years. and I'm ~
strong Is an OF. and only thirty. What
makes ne lazs around and beg victuals.
and slssp in barns. and put up with sus-
picions and insults, and wear ragged
slothssp Don't Jon knswf sposs l
was to ssk you what makes hundreds OF
young fellows lazs around your hotels
and wait for Invitations 10 dinner and TO
drink, aud put up with the suspicious
and insults OF the fathsrs- and mothers
In the houses where they 90? What
makes nble-bodisd fellows that you call
gentlemen. marry money before they'll
work for Il. and then spend their lives
leahug around Europer Does Il make
any difference what kind o. clothes .
man wears when he goes In for shirkin'
the disagrseablssf Seems to me we al
20 In for dOdgin' the old curse u w can.
and gettin' our bread without the
swsatin' OF our brows. and !. for ona,
stand up to II square and say. that's my
little game; whats yourn?
But the thing that makes me mad IN
this: The whole briugin' up Of this
country IL calculated 10 develop tramps.
and when the tramps 10 developed. the
whole country flies at 'em 10 II II was
their fault. Amt that sof Look at
me. don't want to cay nothin' agin
my old folks. now they are dead and
gone, but I'm Just like thousands Of
others. got an idea whom I was q kid
that the smartest thing In this world
was TO live without no trouble. Tho
biesest lions that svcr come 10 our
house was the swell tramps that lived
or Of other people. They used to 60
round lecturin'. and eshortin', and get
tin the fat O. the land. and many's tho
time I've got out o. my bed 10 let one Of
'sm get In. what'd they ever do for n
liyiu'p All the women run after 'ein.
There wasn't anything good enough for
'em. Why. l was took hve miles one
Winters night to see and hear
the biggest man that had ever como
TO our school house. He'd been all over
the world. they said; the greatest trav-
sler on earth. He never stopped any.
where any longer than It took 70 get his
money for tsllin' how fur he'd been.
He'd never stayed long enough In one
spot to do anything. and never meant 10.
Why, sir, when l was ten years old
ia got il bent into mi that heaven was
a big loafin' place where q fellow could
sleep on flower beds and have tunes
sung to him all the time. My idea OF
the place WAS that II was built 20 that
the people wouln't have anything to do.
What did they give me to read whom l
went to schoolp Why. air. the fellows
that made their marks on my brains.
who was they , They was .Eueas aud
Ulysses and Gil Bias and Don Caesar do
Dazau. hain't forgot 'sm. Do you
know what l saw the first time ! ever
went to the theatre II was q house
full Of fine ladies aud gentlemen cryin'
over that tramp. Rip Van Wrinkle. I've
heard since that there ain't NO play like
II. Then when I got older. I found out
that the people who bad the easiest
times and got respected the most was
the people that didn't make any money,
but stood between other people what
did, aud kinder stopped II on Its way
from M to the other.
What's all this 20 to show Ill tell
you. II goes to show that the soft part
o. me got bigger than the hard part.
Ny fine nature got brought up to take
things easy. l didn't like TO DO fast
ensd DOWN by nc rulss-a ins nature
never does-and I struggled Of. I've
read q good deal about sunshine. and
air, aud the love Of nature. In my time.
and them's the things I 20 in for. Whit
have You got 10 say agin itr AL you
can. We'll. I amt no good to EN- qui.
city and psaceably. But there's lots Of
people that amt no good 10 'sm, hnd
make an awful lot OF trouble and noise
about 1t. Why don't you 20 for them
frstp IL q man got to be q gsntssl
tramp In this country. aud put q rosy in
his buttonhole and carry n cane instead
Of a stick. before you'll allow him any
rights Has q fellow got to have a leo
turs written for him and 60 round with
1t in his pocket before you'll give him
q showl don't say work amt = good
thing for them n has got It In EN-.
I've seen lots Of people that could
GET comfort ont OF 1t, and liked 10. But
the most Of US don't. I'm honest
enough to say 30. What ! like Is to get
INV yictuals aud drink without sarnin'
'em; to sleep 10 the sun on a hillside.
and hear the factory whistles, and know