Show RAILROAD MADE HIM A HOBO professional tells how he got started on nomadic life I 1 was raised said buffalo scotty a sound on a farm in illinois beside me there was only dad an a thunder ln grouchy old dad at that I 1 aln t blamen him me mother had al ways run the whole train kept the lamps lighted an when she died dad had no reason for keehln alive so he shet up an jest worked he gave me the habit BO deep that even now it keeps colln on me like appendicitis an when it comes it takes maybe three weeks on a steady job to cure it well when I 1 was 15 a railroad was abeln built ten miles north of the farm I 1 kept dad to let me take a day off to see it but the more I 1 teased the tighter he froze at last one afternoon in august I 1 was mendan the fence in the lower corn field the wind kept blowin the engine s whistle over the hills an every time them whistles came I 1 felt me own steam at last I 1 quit work I 1 jest stood and listened an about one minute later I 1 was a hobo for life ald legs cutten air I 1 ve stuck to the camps ever since when I 1 go to a city I 1 gen brally get loaded an lose all me pay inside of a week twice ive been rolled which means held up an me roll money ripped out of me pants once they took most of the pants with the roll but I 1 aln t an I 1 don t want to go home nor to bo saved by no woman you asked me how I 1 came to be a hobo an ive give it to ou straight there s been a lot ot talk about farm ers kids who run off ald circuses jest you take my tip for runaway kids the real hot circus aln t no corn mon elephant game it s the railroad everybody a |