Show STEPFATHER A PROMINENT FIGURE I IN BOY DOY TRAMPS TRAMP'S HARD LUCK STORY Driven CH from home homo b by the lie cruelty of or his stepfather Frank Luther a a. aboy aboy boy about seventeen enteen Is wandering the country eating the food that Is 18 given to him by those who hear lic-ar his story and sleeping In an any corner that will shelter him from the tho storm and the cold Without overcoat 0 or gloves tho bo boy climbs upon the first freight train going his way and clings CI to the frosted rods or cuddles down clown on the bumpers and rides to the town which ho he has hns selected as his Immediate im immediate irn- irn mediate destination or until he Is s thrown off b by an uns unsympathetic brakeman Young Luther declares his Intention to see seo the greater part of or orthe the United States and then ho lie says say he will settle down and begin to save money to carry him through life Ure I 1 would bo be willing to work hard and I 1 would rather be at home than beating It around the tho country countr said I I Luther but the old man and me dont don't hitch Ive I've done his work worl for or several years ears while he has loafed around the hOIl house e but instead of or thanks thank J lOve Ive got and kicks J for tor doing It I live about 28 8 miles from Great Falls Montana or I did live there until I left a n year ago never to togo togo togo go back My Iy other father is dead and md the theold theold theold old man that my mother man led wont won't give me a lI fair tall show No I 1 wont won't tell his name namo for It would do dome dome dome me no good and It might hurt my mothers mother's feelings Ive I've got some re regard regard regard re- re gard left leCt for or her even if IC she ghe does stick Mick to the tho old oid man We Ve 0 have a n. farm tarm up there and we run a dairy Ive I've done lone the farm work an and helped with tho the milking over ever since I was big enough to tb do It Ive I've ha had to milk as man many na as 12 cows early Inthe in inthe inthe the morning when It was thirty below below below be be- low zero that's the reason I 1 dont don't get cold with my coat unbuttoned am amno and no overcoat on when most of or the Salt Sal Lake people are all wrapped up am and shivering Ive I've driven the milk sleigh h when there was so much snow In the road that Ive I've got ot stuck tuck and had to dig the sleigh and horse out with a a. shovel shove And in the summer time Ive I've plowed as much as three acres o of ground In a day oven even If Ir I 1 dont don't look big enough h to hold a plow up Yes Id I'd like to get some work long enough to get et some somo better looking rags I dont don't like o to look Jook like a tramp But BUl Im I'm going to see seo the country settle down for good I guess Ill I'll get enough of oC knocking around In time and then Ill I'll get down I and save somo some mone money to live livo on The Tho old mans side of the stor story has not been heard and It may h be he I that the tho boy doesn't toll toil the tue whole truth when he pictures the cruelty o ohis of oC his stepfather to the sympathetic listener But theres there's something In young oung Luthers Luther's eyo eye that convinces one that ho he will vili make his wa way In the world In spite of any number of or hardhearted hardhearted hardhearted hard hard- hearted stepfathers with whom he hA may be brought in contact And If tho impression which he leaves upon those who talk with him is 18 not n a false e ono one the boy I Is well vell worth watch- watch Ing The depot policeman thought he was worth watching last lait night too and Luther missed connections with the train he hoped to catch atch for Cor sunny California |