The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-04-18
A Sarcastic Eendieant.

III very uuuREy, sail udgRdGu
tramp, with very red eyes, as he stood bow,
ing obsequiousIy at the entrance of a Court
street house. "Won't you please ma'am
be SO good as to give him something to eat
Anything will do-odds and enis-cold
or warm-it don't matter much-for I am
not one of them high toned fried oyster
fellows"
"My husband has forbid me to encour-
age idleness by giving away any more pro-
Visions" replied the lady of the house.
"He says you fellows have sort of Free
Masonry way of letting others know every
house at which you have been fed, and it is
sure TO bring troop Of lazy vagabonds
upon US who would starve before they
would lift their hand to work. So you will
have to move on and get your breakfast
somewhere else."
"But I'm not vagabond, ma I'm; I'm a
hard working, industrious man. came
up on a boat from Memphis to see my sick
mother, who lives out near Camden, and
isn't expected to live. I was robbed on the
boat of every cent had and all my clothes,
while was in Led. do not like to beg,
but Camden is good stretch from here,
and can't walk it on an empty stomach.
Think of the outstretched arms of a poor
sick mother toward her abse 1t child. and
put wings on my feet with few cold pcta-
toes. Pm just at the point where can
eat them without salt"
81 can't do it. They all have story
about like that. The last man fed had to
60 to Columbia inside of twenty -four hours
to save a man from hanging. but few
days after saw him down town SO drunk
he couldn't keep his mouth shut"
"Well. never drink. If I hadn't been
robbed could show you my Murphy rib
bon that have worn till it's raveled into
strings. Long years ago I swore at my
mothers bending knee-the same that now
means ON her couch OF pain because am
not with her-that would never touch the
blIghting cup, and havn't from that time
up to this very minute. Can't You help
me get there in time to comfort her declin-
ing hours with the joy nj tidings that l
have been stsadfast through all tempta-
tions, by giving me the cold grub You had
intended to dump into the garbagebox y
"I'm awful hungry"
al can't nelp til must obey my hus-
band-his orders were positive" said the
woman, snappishly.
swell, you're the most extraordinary
woman ever saw, if you do. But say,
can't you give me the paper the beefsteak
was brought home in, to chew as go
along? 1t may fool my stomach for a
while and make it brace me up by think |
ing something better will be along pres |
entity. You'll do that much towards cas- |
ing parents anxious heart, won't you ?"
No, won't"
Well, then, give me paper and let |
me sit by the FIRE and read the advertise
ment of q meat market, and show me the |
place it tells all about provisions. Even
that would be feast-for the imag nation
(which has been about the extens of my |
living lat sly. You won't believe it. may
he. but it is fact, that all the nenrishment
I've had for two days is the bill Of fare
PAINTED on the outside of Fifth avenue
Can you think of that and
keen your stale bread on the inside of the
?'
aYes, can, and / want You to make
yourself scarce without any mora palaver,
Or shall send my boy to call policeman"
exclaimed the indignant woman.
.H Even the photograph Of chicken
would be some comfort, . said the man by
way OF banter, as he moved OF, and IL
vou don't use soap in your dishwater,
few potato parings sliced up in it would DO
! regular barbecue for me- v