The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-06

town. I wanted to light out. I didn't
 care much where to.
 Them Blanchet brothers had left a good share of the money we took in at the balloon ascension with the hospital
 people fur me before they cleared out. But before left that there town I
 seen they was one thing had to do to make myself easy in my mind- So done her.
 That was to hunt up that 1e1ler with
 his eye in the patch. It took me a
 week to find him. He lived down near
 some railroad yards. I might of soaked
 him with coupling pin and felt hull lot better. But didn't guess it would ! do to pet and pamper my feelings too
 much. So does 1t with my fists in a
 quiet place and does it very complete
 and leaves that town in a cattle car, feeling a hull lot more contented in my mind.
 Then they was a hull dern year I
 didn't stay nowhere very long, nor work at any one job too long. neither.
 jest worked from place to place see
 ing things-bfg towns and rivers and
 mountains. Working here and there.
 and loaf1ng and riding blind baggages
 and freight trains between jobs, cov- cred a lot of ground that year and
 made some purty big jumps and got l acquainted with some awful queer folks, first and last.
 But the worst of that is lots of peo-
 pie gets to thinking am a hobo. Even I one or two judges in police courts I | got acquainted with had that there idea of me. I always explains that I am not one and am jest travelling
 around to see things and working when I feels like it and ain't no bum | But frequent am not believed. And two, three different times I gets to the
 place where couldn't hardly of told myself from a hobo if I hadn't of knowed I wasn't one.
 got r1ght well acquainted with
 some of them hoboes too. As fur as l
 can see they is as much difference in them as in other humans. Some travels
 because they likes to see things. and
 some because they hates to work, and some because they is in the habit and can't stop it. We'll, know myself it's
 purity hard after awhile to stop 1t, fur
 where would you stop at? What ex- euse is they to stop one place more'n
 anotherf I met all kinds of 'em, and
 oncet got in fur a week with a cou-
 pie of real Johnny Yeggs that is both l III the pen now. nGdGu d I611SE say
 one time there is some good in every
 man. I went the same way as them two yeggmen a hull dern week to try
 and find out where the good in lem
 was. I guess they must be some mis- take somewheres, fur looked hard and I watched closet and L never
 found it. They is many kinds of ho-
 bos and tramps. professional and anna
 chure, and lots of kinds of buns and
 lots of young felIers working their
 way around to see things, like was, and lots of workingmen in hard luck
 going from place to place, and all them kinds is huKnans. But the real yeggman ain't even dog.
 One. morning I was in a good sized town in Illinoise, not a hundred miles from where was raised. without no money, and my clothes not much to look at, and no job. I had been with | a railroad show fur about two weeks, | driving stakes and other rough work, i and it had went off and left me sleep 1 ing on the ground. Circuses never
 waits fur nothing nor cares dern fur
 no one. I tried all day around town
 fur to get some kind of job and got
 one loading boxes at a freight depot
 Lifting one of them boxes down from '
 to of dropped her.
 | Fur she was addressed to Dr. Hart 1 ley L. Kirby. Atlanta, Ga.
 1 managed to get that box onto the
 platform without busting her. and then
 sets down on top of her awful weak.
 was tickled. TickIed? Jest so tick
 led was plumb foolish with it. The
 doctor was alive after all. I kept say
 ing 1t over and over to myself. He
 hadn't drownded nor b1owed away. And was going to hunt him up. calkelated l could grab a ride that
 very, night that would put me into
 Evansville the next morning. I fig
 gered if 1 ketched a through freight from there on the next night might get where he was almost as quick as them bottles did.
 At 10 that night was in an empty pumping along south along with a cross eyed feIler named Looney Hogan,
 who was travelling the same way. Riding on trains without paying fare afn't always the easy thing it sounds
 It is like a trade that has got to be
 learned. They is different ways of do- ing it. l have done every way ire ! quent, except one. That 1 give up aft
 CT trying her two. three times. That
 is riding the rods down underneath the
 cars, with a piece of board put acrost | lem to lay yourself on- never want to go anywheres agin
 bad enough to ride the rods.
 This feller Looney Hogan that was
 with me was kind of a harmless crit l ter, and he didn't know jest where he
 was going, nor why. He was mostly scared of things, and if you spoke to l him quick be shivered first and then | grfnned idiotic so you wouldn't kick him, and when he talked he had a silly little giggle. He had been made hathaway in a reform school where they took him young and tried to work the cussedness out'n him by batting him around. They worked it out and purty nigh everything else along with F+ oueSs TOonoV had had narGineY