Show little call for work of strolling tinkey the alve and ten put the finishing touches to the occupation of the strolling tinker or tinsmith nobody nowadays would bother to patch up a teakettle or put a new log leg on a ill black ac k cas carthron castl thron ron pot soldering Is unknown in the homes of the poor and lowly and the leaking teapot no longer awaits the tinker it hikes to the dump when tile cover of the coffee pot breaks away from the hinges now it ls Is allowed to remain away and when the wash boiler gives out the eldest son may use it for a bass drum or fill it with I 1 loam oam and plant geraniums ir 1 it no longer is tile broken handle of the earthen teapot restored to its former mar place of usefulness by the application of the gray cement nor Is the broken griddle held together by sheet iron straps riveted in thus has human society lost one oine of its ita most picturesque and romantic characters the strolling tinker thus has tile moral atmosphere been robbed of its chol choicest cesi perfume and the tone of human society been lowered no poems have been written no eulogies delivered and no monument raised to the tinker but he Is enshrined in the hearts of men and women whose parents in the days gone by used to threaten them with the tinker when they were unruly fall river globe |