The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-19
HOBO POSES FOR HIS PICTURE.

persons who claim that the whitest
Thing about newspapers is the paper
they are printed on. However that
may be, It is evident that Hobo wasn't
Intended for newspaper cat. He
would have made a good clergyman's
cat, real nice clergymans cat, pro
Nded, of course, that the clergyman
wasn't particular.
AS a society cat, Hobo might have
net with some degree of success. A
biue bow would have gone we'll with
thegorlginal whiteness of that coat of
his. but Fate had ordained otherwise,
and Hobo shook from him whatever OF
sahcuty attached to his original sur
Foundlngs, and stepped forth into the
world. He started out in search of
experience, and now he is getting it,
It comes in daily instruments. His
coat is tattered and torn with it, his
body Is dented with it, his food is i'm
pegnaJed with it, his mind is imbued
win it; in short, Hobo is a veritabe
bundle Of experiences -
And Hobo looks all the experience he
has had From the tip of his feathery
tail to the ragged points of his active
little ears his appearance bears out his
record. Rings of dirt stretch across
his body like clouds across a summer
SKY, Those same streaks of SCOT stretch
away down his stubby legs like ink
on Whitewashed wall, his eyes, dark
Fhmmed and downcast, speak of. SOM
hambulism; his feet. minated and I'M
Washed, show no signs of having trod
me straight, narrow path. In short,
Hobo looks as if he had acted on Kip
ing advice and taken up the white
mans burden or some other old in-i
cubus.
Hobo is peculiar. Those who have
stepped on him say that he is very
PECULIAR; those whose lunches he has
stolen say that he is - peculiar; but
Tor public purposes he is simply pecu-
mar For instance. there doesn't APP
Pear TO be any particular reason why
HoDo should choose the drawer beneath
an imposing stone for a sleeping place,
ana as Hobo doesn't advance any, his
beep is always, figuratively speaking,
y morn in the flesh. Then, again,
mere seems to be no. good and sufficient
reason why Hobo should insist on get
ing beneath the wheels of the metal
truck or manifest such determination
10 cultivate the acquaintance of the
form elevator. Hobo either can't or
won't explain these things and the
comps when hustlng on the last
page don't fake the time. As q result
u takes Hobo several days to recover
rom the effects Of their substitutes for
srgument. That he3 hasn't been cut
mo biscuits and divided against him
sei by forms and blocks of type metal
.9ng before this is no fault Of Hobo's;
shat he hasn't been ground into minee
nsat IN a linotype machine is due 70
. oversight on his part. it simply re.
nt,ects credit upon the .watohfulness Of
ine comps, Hobe,s natural curiosity
Su MINI once into the sacred retreats
VI The managing EDITORS desk, ana
VI MhiIe the Office went wild with grle1'
noDo snored on undisturbed, on EX
lp',salslon," The financial crisis ana
ne duties of the nation"
r.l J. 81 With all his "peculiarihes," there
.Sh a man on the Spy's composing
,o9h l floor who doesn't have a kind OF
"oVherly love for Hobo slowed away |
soII where in his heart. They don't
GdaHe him Christmas presents, they !
u"h even buy him beefsteak once IN |
y nile they use him rather rough, so
slopo thinks, but he doesn't brood over
tuCh things for he knows that with all
'helr faults they love him still.
~ once wicked comp" fed Hobo VINE |
pc sure it wasn't "a schooner II
Hbatdly arose to the dignity of chaser
~. II was enough for Hobo He never
, ICY so good in all his life before. Mice
ere simply not in it, and milk was |
"nS,nWater Hobo didn't 30 a thing put
10y himself. He took one good swat !
,SW OF the stuff and spat out the rest |
Guy mat one swallow was enough the
I,.sI dldnt count. 1t was the elixir OF
~ la; Hobo felt as If his aunt
.'au died or he had been born
SAN From his stomach a spasn OF
j. .M ,g wild joy shot along his backbone
~ Jumped off the tip of his tail. HIS
'oii rose with his spirits and with a |
~ IKE that of Comache, HOBO
r@Ped three feet, in the abr and landing |
"IlH back, tail and spirits still up, shot |
|, lohs the floor like ball in bowling |
10y. AT the other end he stopped |
~ lncipally because there was no one |
s,aere to- move the wall. Then he sat |
'SoWn and nourished the sore spots and |
~ 2sGig ht 1t over and apparently came
20 we conclusion that 1t wasn't so bad |
es'st al, for since then Hobo has acted |
~, ~ II this world wasn't good enough for
V (ne of Hobo's chief delights is to tan
GI'ISe Priscilla. Priscilla is an institu-
ION. She came to the Spy shortly after
.'e mood, and has been here since. She
an embodient of all that is good
''oaest and Mosaic. She is covered with
- aouole- dyed virtues and a dappled-
10y coat Of fur, and she, Of course,
U ,,'. askance at Hobos dirt and devil
~; Priscilla hasn't seen the earth for
Il, ing she has forgotten how 1T looks.
w.. the time when she was first
sought into'the Spy once years ago,