The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-27
Dispensing a Tramp.
From, the Netc York sun.

was eating dinner at a farm house in
| Indiana when one of the children came IN
! and announced that highway tramp had
| called at the kitchen wlnGow and asked for
| a bite to eat The farmer was very fat,
very short, and very bald-headed man, and
| he was postmaster at the corners and jus
| tice of thepeace in and for the county
! He had a son called James, another called
| Moses, and a hired man who was addressed
| as Towser. He sent out word for the tramp
| to sit down and rest, and as laugh went
around the table he explained:
| After dinner | shall be pleased to show
you how we encourage tramps III this sec
| ton. This is evidently a new man to this
| part of the state or he would never have
| called here.n
After dinner we went out. The tramp was
sitting under a cherry tree, looking as co n
| Portable as you please, and evidently I'M
suspicious that anything except dinner was
| il store for him. He looked TO me like a
| bad man to fool with, but the farmer didn't
seem to read him that way.
Now, them" be said, as he rubbed his
fat hands together you will stand up
''Nhat fur" asked the tramp.
"To be Kicked / am going to boot you
| from this spot down to that silvered tele-
| phone pole.
But object"
Can't help chat As fourth-cass post
master of the United States of America |
command you to arise"
"If am kicked somebody else will get
hurtr' cautioned the tramp as he got up
LAS one Of the justices of peacs in and
for this county | command you to dis
pe se," said tle farmer, and he turned the
tramp toward the gate and administered a
kick.
Next instant he received a left-hander on
the nose which knocked MIN into con
fused heap on the gra s. and the tramp t
out of his old coat and prepared tor bust
ness.
"Towser, pulverize him" shouted the
farmer as he struggled to his knees. ''In thu
name of the United States | command you
knock him down.
Towser advanced, his big fists doubled
up, hut the tramp danced TO the right and
to the left, and then sent in one on the hired
mans commissary department which
doubled him up ana laid him among tue
hollyhocks.
James, Moses make him prisoner"
yelled the old man, as he plucked hand
full of grass and held it to his bleeding
nose.
The tramp chuckled. There was fun
aheId.
The two boys were strapping young fell
lows, strong enough to knock down an OK,
and they we're willing t. go in. AS they
stripped Off the tramp backed up between
two current bushes, where they could rot
flank him. and as they advanced upon him
he grinned all over. He played with them
for a minute or two, and then drew a long
breath, made three or four feints, and piled
them on the grass together. Neither moved
to get up for full two minutes. Meanwhile
the tramp rested and looked over to me and
queried:
"You amt one Of the crowd''
"No.n
"And don't want me to disperse"
mot particularly"
"All right | don't think the United
States and his gang want anything more
Of me just now, and as | have an engage
ment down the road I'll move on. When
they get washed up and the bandageS on tell
'em used to scrap with the boys in Chicago
in days gone by, and that | held myself in
and let EN- or very mild Good-by
stranger Ta, ia, Old fatty"
And he had not been gone ten minutes
before tho postmaster came over to me and
whispered:
odd you ever"