Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-21
No.MADIC, NUISANCES.
California. JournaIist,s Exner,-
= ence With the Gentle Tra,nn
Night With BiIks, Reats
and BummerS,


penniless, friendless, and oblioad 70 y
out on foot in search of employment n
l the night of April LIST, night oyertook ~
5 west OF Gait, and, while CROSSING q hid
oyer small creek, observed a fire
Ile 1ushes few yards distant, an
neard the hum of human voices. A
tracted partly through curiosity an
p"ruy 10y desire to secure warmth an
pace TO he down through the night
.elV Che railroad track and approache
the spot, and soon found myself in fl
must OF group of about fifteen dirty
INFAMOUS looking tramps who ba
camped there for the night. | expIaine,
70 them that | too was a tramp for tn
tlme being, and they babe me weIcom
10 their royal accommodations.
FOR three hours | sat an interested Lis
tener to their recitals of personal exner;
ence and exhibitions of adamantin,
eneek, mterspersed with rude songs anC
iiiueousiy vulgar conversation.
ONE OF THE SONGS,
In which all joined in the cborus wo.
sung in lusty voice by a nomadic mis- m1S.
ance known as Delaware FATTY y and i, nY
llle IolioWlng morning | induced him tc
F fePeat IL TO me to be copied. 1t ran as
We are the great American buns, a royal, iolly
From east to west, from north To soutb wore
-, found on every hand; w &c
we rue IN palace cattle cars, or on the track we
And don't we have the rousin' sport around orr
fires in camp. ~ 0''i
CHORUS
Royal chums,
Jolly buns,
We i've like royal Turks
When we have luck
A bummin' our chuck
10 HI with the man that works
The bum walks boldly up to a house and pivos
yank at the bell 70
Ana when the lady comes to the door his story
he does tell
"Oh, madam, lam hungry and tired indead I'm
And wont you be so obligin' kind as to give me
sumthin' to eat?"
The madam says: "Why, certainly. III give to
you some food,
IT, after you have eaten it, you'll saw little
The bum replies: "Of course I will most will
lingly,"
And then he stove away the grub in manner
strange to see.
As soon as he has filed his skin with the very
best of food,
The lady shows him the buck and saw and a
great big pile of wood
But just minute later he shows professional
sense,
For as soon as the lady's back is turned, the
bum sklps over the fence.
Wen bum our chuck while life does last, and
when we come to die,
Our solid pards II bum place in which for us
And when the last great trumpet sounds YOU
-. bet we won't be late,
Wen brace old Peter up above and bum right
through the gate.
THE CHECKLIST PIECE OF RUNNING.
q What was the checklist piece of bum
ming you ever heard of ?" | asked the
crowd
Well" replied Tom the Tinker 81
can tell you good one. About a wear
ago mob OF us was camped near Stock
ton, about quarter of a mile from
farm house. We seen some chickens a
around the house, an made up
our minds to have feast fit fur king.
About midnight Boston Tim and old
Hit the Road a Welt went out foragin'
an soon came back with four beautiful !
chickens. Then a quandary come to the |
front. We had big fellow with us by |
the name of Brocky Jack, and he said |
he'd fix that if thar was pot on the |
ranch. He went up to the house an /
pred open window of a sort o. back |
kitchen, an stole kittle big enough to |
pie sheep In, an we soon had IN bulb |
bin like the hob o. hades. About this
time we found out that there wasn't a hit |
o. salt IN the camp, an we were in a |
pickle again. Brocky went back, an
went through the kitchen agin. but
d-n the speck o. salt could he find. At
last he walked around to the front door
an, rung the bell like it was fire alarm.
an when woman yelled out, who's
there| he said that a man down the
road had cut his hand an was bleedin'
to death, an axed her fur some salt to
stop the blood. The woman rushed
around an got him about pint, an YOU
BET We had stew good enough fur Queen
Victory. We skipped out afore the
amily was up mex morning. an hence
ant give you the remarks made when
he true state of matters came to light"
The rough crowd laughed heartily over
he story, and voted "Brocky" a "good
I'm" and worthy bum.
WORKING WITH A "KID."
On my tramp 1 had noticed on the
posts, depots, car houses and
ences long lists of names where the
Migrants had registered as they
ramped along. Some used pencils but
ne majority cut the names into the wood
18th knives. The frequency of the word
Kid, !" such as Denver Bob and Kid"
Cheyenne Dick and Kid" ETC., etc., at
acted my attention, and / inquired the
leaning of the term.
cts the boss racket" said one of the
ang. when bum kin get a kid to
'avel with him he's fixed" And then
e explained that it was always desirable
Dr tramp to secure boy to take along
18th him in his wanderings. When a
)wn was reached the tramp would pass
q through, and the boy would 60 from
ouse to house telling a pitiful story of
he death of his mother in the East, and
his endeavors to reach an uncle in San :
rancisco. The uncle was his only
wing relative, and was too poor to pay
is fare, hence he was getting through as
est he could. He always returned to
is vagabond master with several dollars
money, which were squandered in
rink in the next town.
DEPARTURE WITHOUT SAYING GOoD-BY. {
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