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Show ey) to take ma under his guidance for a while. Being ' about to question the trainmen concerning the freight"! leaving. leav-ing. ; I was sternly admonished by my experienced friend, who warned me not to go "shootln' de gaff at de shack" (talking to the trainmen). A tramp asks no questions he finds out all he desires to know, and then boards his train unobserved. We "got a feed box," and my sage, counselor proceeded to "pipe de shack," by ' sundry squints through the crack, between the lid and thf top of the car. It Is always of Importance Im-portance for the hobo to know whether the front brakeman has passed from the engine, over the top, to the caboose ca-boose or not. If he has, all Is safe until un-til the next stop Is approached. But, after traveling a few miles, the brake-man brake-man discovered us. He was "good," however, on the production of 25 cents from me and the union card of my friend weary. "A union card," said Weary. "1 de hull tip. Dese brakies Is all B. R. T. (Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen); and dey believes in helpln' de union man." "What do you work at?" I Inquired. "Me work!" A look of disgust spread over his face. "Dia Is 'phony (a misrepresentation) mis-representation) kid. I stole dis. Wid a card ye kin gen'rally ride; widout it ye gits trun off. See?" Jack Hale In The Pilgrim. ! The Tramp's "Union." While conducting some personal sociological so-ciological researches on the tramp Question, and the beet means of Us elimination, I frequently had occasion to travel via the box-car route, in order or-der to properly obtain light upon the Inner life of that strange animal, the genus hobo. I will never forget the first trip I took1 this way, nor the remarkable re-markable knowledge on the question I gained during it and successive Journeys. Jour-neys. The tramp of experience invariably invaria-bly travels alone, works a town alone, and Journeys .through life entirely alone, except those of the "yegg," or criminal class, who work in gangs. But, on the occasion I mention. I managed to persuade a hobo who had "hit me up fer de cash" (synonymous with 1 "pan-handling," meaning to beg mon- |