The historic times., 1891-10-10
YOUNG AT THE BUSINESS.
A Tale OF Two Tramps who Were Looking
for Food.

| A Tale OF Two Tramps Who Were Looking
for Food.
! He had seen better days. Anybody
could tell that. But the chances were
that his sight had not rested on day
that had not been decidedly worse for
long time His clothes were not OF the
latest cut, and they were not in as good
repair as they might have been. His
beard, which was of a pronounced red
with traces here and there OF that
warm Titan shade of which Laura
Libby is wont to tell, was fully two
weeks advanced toward maturity and
his nose matched his beard perfectly IN
appearance. He was not pretty man,
and his breath permeated large ex-
panse of atmosphere with permeatlon
that had very pronounced symptoms OF
stale beer about it
To get down to hard facts-he was a
tramp.
He walked up West Main street in an
aimless sort Of way, and his every
action gave proof to the fact that he
was playing in hard luck. Just up by
Plymouth avenue another tramp came
along. The second one differed from
the first but very little in his general
makeup. He was younger, though, and
not quite so dirty. The two men met
and stopped They eyed each other
curiously for moment and then the
second one said, How're they comin'?'
"Rottern," replied the first one sente-
tiously.
Same here" said the other one
grimly. Had any grub?"
mop"
swat are yer doin'?"
"Lookin' fer t."
'Where yer goin'?"
"Goin' ter try my luck out here on
this street. Worked the same woman
four times by calm an askin' il her
mother was in. She's sixty but she
thinks she don't look it, an she's bit
every time on the same gag. Wanter
60 'long?"
The young man was pleased at the
! prospect and said that he did. Up the
street the two pedestrians sailed, ant
after a few moments walk reached the
house where the susceptible woman
lived Just as the man who had beer
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try, happy thought seemed to strike
him, and he turned and said: 'Say
watts the matter with your goin' in an
maxim a bluff at her. She'd know me,
sure"
"W'at'll 1 say?" asked the young
man.
"Aw, give her any CUFF yer think Of
Ask her # her grandmother is in, and
wen she tells yer that she is dead, beg
her parding and tell her that she's SO
! young lookin' that you thought she was
livin' with her. Any sort of stuffn go,
she's so dead stuck on bein' taken fer
younger than she is"
The young man was tickled with the
| idea and he pulled the gate open and
walked up the front steps with nom
chalant air and pulled the front door
bell In d moment the lady of the house
came to the door and he took off his hat
and made a low bow. "Scuse me,
nam, but is any of yer grandchildren
| home?"
"I haven't any grandchildren, "
mapped the woman as she started to
close the door.
II ak your pardlng, ma'am; come to
look at you you amt old enough to
have grandchildren. Can l see your
married daughter?"
"Why, you insulting wretch, and me
only 80 years old Get out of the yard
or I'll scald you," almost shouted the
enraged woman as she slammed the
door shut with bang that could be
heard square.
Meanwhile the other tramp stood at
the bottom of the steps, black in the
face from anger. When the young man
came down he grabbed him by the
throat and Kissed; What did you ask
her that for? You don't know as much
bout taffyin' woman as | do about
the inside OF bank" Then he pushed
the young man from him and strobe out
to the sidewalk. At the gate he turned
and shouted back to the young fellow
who stood where the older man had
showed him: 'You a tramp You? Bah
The best thing you can do young feller
Is ter go to work." "
And he strode down the street, never
once looking back at his quondam part
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returned from the United States tC
visit her friends at home, was told tha'
she Cooked really aristocratic." Tt
which she responded: "Yes, in Ameri
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