The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-24
Food and Lodging for Work.

and in this country, has extended his
investigations to England. He writes a
paper entitled, "Two Tramps In Eng
land in Century. He and his COM
panion, German student, completed a
tour through the provinces with an ex-
perience in casual at Noting Hill,
London. Mr.. Flynt writes;
We appeared at the door of the ward
about half past in the evening. A lit
tie window was raised and l stepped
forward to state my business. Uncon-
sciously leaned against the sill of the
window, which offended the inspector
in charge considerably
whats your name?" he Numbered
Still leaning on the sill, gave him my
name honestly enough. He then remark
ed to some person inside that we We're
not accustomed to such places evident
ly, and called ont, stand back, will
you'll Back stood. He cried out again,
"Take off your haiti My hat came off
instanter. Still again: "You come in
here as if you was meeleeonary. You're
not You re casual. l was as meek
as could well be. Ryborg was itching to
grab the inspector with his long arms.
The next question was as to where we
had slept the night before.
"strtw stack " replied
Moo of your impudence! You slept
out Why don't you say so? Have you
got any money!"
"A hap emmy, sir "
"Hand it in.' In it went. Then l
had to tell my trade, which was that Of
a sailor, and naturally the next question
was as to where was bound.
ITO Ameriky, sir, if l can ever get
there. "
lyon re goin to tramp it, aren't you?"
YES sir; that's my intention. But
for the life of me l could not see how I
was to reach America that way. was
so frightened that l would have told
him anything he wanted.
When he was through with us, kind
hearted attendant took us in hand, gave
us some cruel and bread, bath, clean
night shirts, and then cell apiece, in
which we slept very well.
AS there We're only four inmates that
morning we We're needed for the clean
ing up, and so escaped stone breaking,
which dreaded exceedingly, and were
put at various light occupations-or
rather was. Ryborg was the victim of
his strength. Our breakfast consisted of
the same dish as our supper of the night
before. l was soon busy as general fire.
man, scrubber, knife cleaner, coal car
rier, dish washer and helper Of my sis
ter sufferer, Mrs. MurphNas she wash
| ed her task of towels and shirts. At
noon we had pea soup and bread. | en-
| joyed it, but Ryborg did not The poor
fellow was feeling badly. He had had
to scrub nearly 20 cells, and the bend
ing over incident to such feat had
nearly broken his back. At dinner he
said plaintively, "Flynt, want to go
home. $50 do l." replied, "but
fancy we're Wanted here till tomorrow
morning" This proved to be the case,
but he felt better in the afternoon and
got through comfortably, wheeling near
ly ton of stone from some of the cells
to the general pile He earned his
keep, if ever any poor prisoner did.
fear was more shiftless, for about
the middle of the afternoon the attend
ant who was with me at the furnace
said: "You might as we'll rest. Just
keep your eye on the fires, that's all "
1t was kind of him, and as / had at
least earned my pea soup and cruel
took his advice. He was kinder to me,
think, because l gave him corncob
pipe which he had had to take away
from me the night before During the
day he had asked me several questions
about it, and said, cts very decent
sort of pipe-coolinlike, you know"
Doesn't Mark Twain always smoke
one O. them pipes?" said he.
"Blest if l know" said 1, "but can
we'll think it, "
"I'm a great friend of Mark Twain, !"
he pursued can I'm a-thinkin O. gettin
one o. them pipes, jest out of respect for
him "
well" said l, permit me in the
name of your respect to present you
with my pipe Besides you We got it any
how. He thanked me profusely, and
promised to keep it forever. Later in the
day he reported it to be just as l had
said, sort O. coolin like. " And he was
good friend to me all the rest of my
stay i'll the Noting Hill station.
On Wednesday morning we were turn
ed loose with our two ha 'pennies. We
were both so happy that we decided to
get off the road that very day,
We had been tramps for three weeks,
and had walked most of this time fully
10 miles day So we looked up my
friend at the Temple, and in few hours
were respectable again. That same day
took my tramp clothes out to the casual
ward and presented them to my friend
the attendant, I had told him the day
before that expected to get new "togs"
soon. and he had put in a plea for my
old ones. Good luck to him and them.