The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-06-24

New Point. that WIN be Read with Interest
by Tramps who Never Take the Road.

by Tramps who Never Take the Road.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sn: I'm
regular tramp. an out an outer. and want to
say somcthin' in the paper What have got to
say2 Well. good deal. Iain't read the papers
much for II long time but know by the way the
gal at the kitchen door and the stable boy in the
barn yard talk that the papers have been goin'
for us. We ant no producers. we ain't we're
cumbcrcrs and nuisanccs and dead beats and
highway robbers. That's what we are.
All right. Mr.. Editor. But hope youll let
fellow put in n lick for himself and his class.
Perhaps YOU think never had any bringing
up. and don't know anything about bellies lcttrcs
or good taste aud ain got no palate for osthct-
les. What do | say ant got no palate for. II
know anything about bellies lcttrcsf Well, I'll
tell you. It's easier. I've got into that shiftlcss
way. If | WIS to quote poetry to a servant gnl
she'd think was crazy and slam the door in
my face. Don't make any mistake about me on
| account of my grammar. ltd take too much
time 10 rccollcct ali about the verbs and SUCH
and want to write Just IA talk.
| amt no drunken louier. No. sir. got my
red face out in the sun. | wouldn't u hud It 4
| I'd stuck to tho pulpit or literature. halnt
| done hands turn a. work for ten years and
| I'm as strong ms an OK, and only thirty, What
| makes me l;ile round and beg Nituals. ana
| sleep in burns and put Hp with suspicious and
! know SpOse | was 10 ask you what makes
! hundreds. oi young fellows lzc round your
! drink and put up with the suspicious and in
suits OF inc father, and mothers IA the houses
! whore they gof What makes ahlr-hudicd TEL
| lows TINT YOU call gentlemen marry money
/ before thuy II WORK Tor II. and then spend their
iN,s ioullns round liur9pS Docs u mas . any
when he goes in for shirkn' the disagreeahlos ,
| seems 20 me We all 70 IN for dodgin the old
| curse il we can and gcttin' our bread without
the swcatin' of our brOws, and l. for one, stand
up 10 II square and say. that's my little game
what : yOurnf go,
But the thing that makes me mad IL this: Tho
whole hringin' up OF this country IL calculated
| To- develop tramps, ana when the irahpS "a &C..
| Nclppcd. tue whole country lus AT en- Us If i
wis their iadlt. Amt that sOf Look At me-.
| don't want T." say nothin' agin nlyold folks. now
they are dead and gone. tut ! m Just ike thou,
| sands of others. gu, an ldva when WAS kid
that IN. snaricst thing N this world was To- Nl
| without no trouble. The biggest lions tina, ever
come to our house was TIA" ,swel tramp mat
lived Of ~ other people. They used To- ~
round lcoiurin aud oAnoriin and gritlh tho
tni o. the and. and many's The time lN"gut out
o. my hcd To- let one OF en- sct in. WlaId IN 'y
ever do for u ivin'2 All the women run after
en-. iherr wasn't anything good enough iHr
might t. 500 and hear the hlg1t ~ man thNt li'l
ever come to our school house. He'd been AL
over the world. they sand; tie greatest traveller
on caitn. lie never stolp.d any wh.re Any
ehSrrb d 19n nr t2pS no H. h n,cr s o dHl
enough in ono SPOT 10 do any ihing ana never
meant to.
beat INTO me- that heaven was biz loahn pac'
where "a fellow cnuli sleep ON Hover b'dS and
nave 'uu'S sung an lur tin' Ny iIrh Oh W. W.
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