The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-11

lean twice-and the first time he had re-
ceived five shillings. So chagrined and
MOI ''fiSd was he at his stupidity that he
iinalls admitted that he didn't care a pro-
fanely small adjective whether he ever saw
his wife and little ones again. But, any
way he explained alphabetically, you're
the first one I've braced twice since ] come
here, and I've touched ar ALTERED lot o
you fellerS, too. i s'pose now / might just
as we'll square myself and own up. that j
amt getting gray waitin' to save up
enough money TO go home in the steerage
maybe I'll run over again some day, when
this graft plays out, but it won't be in
the steerage-maybe it'll be in the cap
tain's stateroom. How did / happen TO
come here? The same way all the rest O.
you fellarS did-to get hold of some of
these British gold boys. / Amt sellin' rail-
road bonds or foatin' any zine mines, but
I'm dom pretty fair in my own line.
There's drawbacks here, Of c~ourse-there's
drawbacks wherever a man tries to make
ar honest living-but we've got to take
EN-"
HIS EXPERIENCE.
As the beggar went on. exposing more
and more of his game" he unconsciously
became less aggrieved at his would-be vic
TINS Impotence in finding him out, and
finally spoke with unreserved enthusiasm
of his calling n his success in 1t. I'D
about worked the game to a finish in New
York." he went on; between the rounds
men and the policy gigs. / kept broke most
Of the time, so I just thinks up this graft
here. TIL boobies don't get 1t all in the
first place. They get their bit all right
wen it's coming to ~them-that's business
but they don't pound you and rob you OF all
you can make in a week. and more, too.
Why, before | came here a cop tried 10
oxva M Dsf nn tho leland FOR rnfn~ Ghv
a dollar for a couple OF weeks, when there
was not much doing. They could arrest
me here, If they wanted to. / haven't ever
taken out any license or been registered;
but they amt doing It. A very decent lot
are these boobies. And, say-did you catch
the way / said that-tdecent lot these bob
bies?-just like ore Of these bloomin' Cock
neys, wasn't it? I've caught myself at il
seven or eight times, talkin' just like EN-.
I'll have TO forget hat or lose my job.
Barring the police, L find it costs more to
live here than in New York. Maybe il
wouldn't If / could put up with the free
soup houses, but 1 can't. Why. that Irish
stew they gave you over in Forty-fourth
street is a banquet alongside OF the stuff
they call 'porridge' here. / had to quit IL in
a week and went to boarding in a respect
able boarding house. The bobby gets what
ever i want to give him, as one gentleman
would give TO another gentleman, some
times a shilling and sometimes a couple O.
bob-there IL goes again. I've got TO forget
that, or you fellars viii be takin' me for an
impostor. No, | never tackle anybody but
Americans. / struck an Englishman once,
and he asked me from what riding 1 came.
l just let him alone right there. He meant
precinct of course. but L didn't know IL
then.
MY busy time. Of course, is when the
people are coming over in June and the
early summer. I've made as high as Go In
a week. / like TO get them hot from the
steamships, If L can It's funny how open-
handed hey are at first with their English
change, before they get TO know how fast IL
can eat into their money. It's happened
three or four times that the same men who
have turned me down in New York have
given me as high as 10 shillings here"