The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-10
,non them that don't belong to the

uAb. but YOU see got free passage on
a freioht train. and didn't sthop. 1t was :
in the Aist that expected to find wor-
ruk."
"Have you any trader
"Trade, is it! I'm brickmaker' you
knows. and manys the lit I've nao
maxim bricks in Milwaukee, sure, I've
as aisv hand at it as any man. Maybe
yer honor might know OF XIII mere
about?'
Now. to nv certain knowledge, there
was not brick kiln within fifty miles OF
that SPOT, and of all unlikely places to
find one would have been this sandy
peninsula. given up to the summer resi-
dences of few wealthy people. Yet l
could not help admiring the assumption
Of the scamp, who knew this fact as we'll
as myself. But l said, u can
give YOU work for day or two, ana,
Kidding him gather up his sick wltes ap-
narel. led the way across the downs to my
COTTAGE. At first think the offer took
him by surprise, and give him some con-
sternation, but he presently recovered ms
spirits, and almost instantly his speech.
eAh. wur-ruk, is it. God be PRAISED; us
meself that's ready and willin, Though
NAV be me hand is spoilt wild brick max
ing"
| I assured him that the work | would
give him would require no dell
cate manipulation, and SO we Jared on
over the sleepy downs. But | could not
help noticing that, although an Invalid, l
was a much better pedestrian than my
communion frequently leaving him be-
hind. and that, even as a tramp he was
etymologically an imposter. He had a
way of lingering beside the fences we
had to climb over as if to continue more
contidentially the history of his mlsfor
tunes and troubles, which he was deliver
ing to me during our homeward walk,
and 1 noticed that he could seldom resist
the invitation of amossy boulder or a
J tussock of salt grass. "Ye see, SIT, ne
, would say, suddenly sitting down, 1T $
along NV me misfortunes beginning IN
r Milwaukee that and it was not until
\ T was out of hearing that he would Ian
2 guidly gather up his traps again ano
saunter after me. When l reached my
/, own garden gate he leaned for moment
} over it. with both his powerful arms ex
e tended downward, and said, " All, but IT.
p a blessin' that Sunday comes to give res
I fur the wake and the weary. and thlm a
e walks sivinteen miles to get II" VI cours
: T took the hint. There was evidently n
work to be had from my friend the tram
l. that day. Yet his countenance brightene'
it a. he saw the limited extent OF my do
IT main, and observed that the garden
l, called was only flower bed aDou
a twenty-five by ten. As he had doubties
a. before this been utilized to the exten
ct of his capacity in digging, he ha
lie probably expected that kind OF work, an
re / dare say discomftted him by polntln
n. him to an almost leveled stone wall aDot
I'd twenty feet long, with the remark thu
his work would be the rebuilding OF th'
lg stone wall with stone brought from tt
l neiehboring slopes In few momen
m he was comfortably provided for in tt
I'd Kitchen where the cook, woman OF n
| own nativity, apparently "chaffed' M
n with a raillery that was to me quite UNI
ld teligible. Yet I noticed that when,
lie sunset he accompanied Bridget to Il
re spring for water, ostentatiously tlourlshll
lis the empty bucket in his hand, when tn
90 returned in the cleaning Bridget "
'se CARRYING the water. and my friend I
ms Tramp. was some PAGES behind her che'
ep fully "colloguing," and picking blac
ad berries.
he At the next morning he started
cheerfully to work. At a. m. he h
we placed three large stones on the n
mo course in position, an hour having be
en- spent in looking for pick and hamm
vas and in the incident "chatting"
APPS Bridget. At 10 o'clock | went to ov
10 look his work; it was rash action, a
are caused him to respectfully dotf his |
ent discontinue his labors, and lean b'
ape against the fence in cheerful ana
conversation. Are We fond NV oiack'
! ries, Captain?" told him that the CHI
II rem were in the habit of getting them IL
the the meadow beyond hoping to stop
me suggestion knew was coming. An,
We Captain, it's meself that with wander
mn and having nothin' to pass me hips
eak- the berries I'd pick from the hedges
sson' meself knows where to find thin. Sh
that it's yer childer. and foine boys they
ross Captain, that are besaching me to go
was EN- to the place, knownst only to mes'
Sau- It is unnecessary to say that he tr1ump
'lige After the manner of yagabonds of all
siS grees. he had enlisted the women
Oh children on his side-and my friend
Sets Tramp had his own way. He departe
IL and returned at 4 p. m. with TN
nina der pail half filled. On interrogatina
., ne- boys it appeared that they had "a /
anty time but on cross-examination it c
ina' out that they had picked the Der
ol From to three more stones were
ages and the arduous labors of the day
ao u over. As stood looking at the tirstce
next of six stone my friend, the Tramp, str
I'M u ed his strong arms out to their fulles
bos- tent and said: ''Ay. but it's WI
'oous that's good for me; gin me wur-ruk,
uie it's all I'll be askin' fur"
: 1870 ventured to suggest that he ha'
snsau vet accomplished much.
sn.a. wait till to-morror. Ali, but
80 see thin. It's me hand that's yet O
"e 20, wild brick-making and sthrange to
: p stones. Az yell wait till tomorrow
and Unfortunately did not wait. Al
o my gagement took me away at an early
ven a and when I rode up to my cottage al
YOUR nv ewes were greeted with an astoni
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