Show A Tramp in a PowderHouse They tried the gum game on me down in Pennsylvania said the old tramp as he got a fresh brace on the fence for his J back hut I came cut ahead considerably consider-ably ahead I How was it Well I struck the town of York one day and I didnt look a bit like a gentleman gentle-man My duds were old my complexion I complex-ion ruined and I was all run down at the heel Ever in New York NoWell the people in New York neither I fend money to the heathen Africa nor waste sympathy on the tramps in America I Amer-ica rW struck thirteen houses in succession suc-cession and didnt get a bite and I was looking around for scrapiron to stay my stomach when along comes an officer and gives me the collar He was taking me to the cooler when a wagon drives up and a chap on the front seat calls out that he will give me a steady job af 1 a day What at You wait a minute I didnt hanker for work mind you hut I didnt care for the jtg and so as the officer willing I I climbed into the wagon and away we I went That job was in the powderhouses I that blew up the other day The manager man-ager thought he had a big joke on me and though I didnt like the idea of working over a volcana I turned to and I put in three days before I quit Why did you quit Well on the third day as I was carrying carry-ing powder to the storehouse the manager man-ager came into the building There was a busted keg on the floor and I was smoking my pipe He didnt notice this unt he got past me and I had him cutoff cut-off Then I sits down by the busted keg pulls away at my pipe and says I Mr Manager i we get there at the same moment you must give me a fair show Where says he his face whiter than snow At heavens gate I answers With that he wanted to know i I wouldnt rather take 30 in cash all the money he had with himand go west and run for office and become a great man and I didnt know but I would He tossed me his wallet remarking that the I i I I train would leave in about five minutes and I picked it up and walked off I I I reckoned on being pisued but he didnt even yell after me The last I saw of I him his legs were giving out at the knee I and a snow landscape was no comparison I to his complexion He may have picked I up another tramp since but I guess not I I guess notDetios Free Piess |