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THE CHINA MAIL,

AMATEUR “TRAMP”

CLUB MAN SETS OUT WITHOUT A PENNY.

TO EARN HIS KEEP.

“We have to go out for a litle while," she arid, "The baby is sleeping. Would you give an ear to him?" ..

"Certainly," I replied, but I felt all over goosey-like;------

..

They had not been gone five

before claiming the tenner each from my five olubmates who had bet

task. me two to one I couldn't do the

EMBANKMENT WALK.

The "Daily Express" latest edi- tions were just being "put to bed" The young lady with the Sealy-minutes when that infant woke and I think that is the term for going bams will always prove a happy yelled. It yelled more when it saw to prere--so I determined to look memory. I met her near Bickley at me. I gave the youngster every-round later in the morning. But I wandered down to the Embank- early morning. She was exercising thing I could to play with, but my I still had to get that breakfast. half a dozen of these dogs, and they face. seemed to annoy it. How

thankful I was when the fond ment. A woman and a man wero were full of whywardness and mals-

parents returned and took the how busy with a coffee-stall, chief.

ling child frem me with Indignant looks! I vow they thought I had been pinching It or sticking pins in its anatomy.

I played Don Quixote to this maiden in distress, rounded her dogs up and, after explanations, she took me to her father with a view to a

job of work for a breakfast, a bath,

and a shave.

It was a capital breakfast, taken with the family. Afterwards I shaved and changed.

"This will take three hours' work to pay off," I said. "What can I do?i

"My motor-car wants a wheel changed and a new tube put in." Baid my host.

I did that.

more

GOO-GOO EYES. The family were going out, most of them, but I insisted on work, and thus I was handed over to the tender mercies of the maid in the kitchen.

She made goo-geo eyes at me, sat

on the table and smoked. It was a great joke to her. But I was as Baint, and I do not solemn as a think it pleased her.

. Her brain was racked to provide some imposition for me. Inatten-

tion to kitchen charms must punished.

An elderly man was cutting his in the evening, and 1 begged work "What do you want for it?"

"A little bread and cheese, and n' glass of beer or a cup of tea."

"Where's the catch?" he asked. "There is no catch," said I. "I honestly want a meal; and am pre- rared to work for it."

"Right," he said, and promptly and relinquished the lawn mower dropped into a chair while I pushed the machine over the grass.

He proved a downright good sort, though took me in and gave me a supper of hot soup, cold mutton and mint sauce, green peas and

potatoes, some trifle with a kick of

brandy in it, a bottle of beer, and

some gruyere cheese.

HIGH VALUE.

He sat up talking with me until two in the morning, and during the conversation he dealt me out two whiskies and sodas and eight ciga- berettes. I had something heavy to

ray for in work before I went.

The drains want cleaning out," she said presently:

"Right-oh," I said "Give me brushes and something to clear away the dirt with."

"You will have to do it with your arms," she said maliciously.

So down on my knees I went, my arme thrust in the wretched drains, and eventually cleared 'them.

"Now wash the dishes," she said.. She sat back on a, tilted chair, her feet on the table, and laughed with glee as I settled to the job.

"Anything more?" I asked when

I had finished.

"Scrub the kitchen floor," said this martinet,

How I could have slapped her as she rocked with joy!

"Take up the mats and shake 'em," she ordered.

SECOND MEAL EARNED.

"Let me offer you a bed," he asked two or three times, but I re- fused that, though I accepted his offer of the couch.

When he went up he lent me a suit of pyjamas and told me where the bathroom" was, and I found when I was early astir next morn ing that he had put out a razor and a nail brush.

I do.not think I overdid it in valuing the sofa and the refreshing night's rest at a shilling: The meal I put down at five shillings, and the whiskies and cigarettes at two shillings, the beer at a shilling Against this I had only earned the night before two shillings.

He agreed to my reckoning for doing the lawn, so I had something like seven shillings to make good before I had breakfast and left. !

I did it. I was up at five o'clock, I did two hours of kitchen work, and all that morning I was paying and I hope the drains are all chok-off my debts, including further ed, and plenty of company comes, acknowledgment for breakfast, by and the ltchen gets covered with digging, weeding, manuring, tying tar marks, so as to make that grin-up roses, painting, the trellis and all ning kitchenmaid work.

kinds of handy jobs.

1

I earned my second meal that day by wheeling crazy paving stones, and at night I clipped a hedge for supper and a lodging in a tool ahed.

why

I did not see any reason my last employer on one day should not be the first employer on the next-this was not against the spirit of the wager, which was that I should do three separate jobs per day and earn three meals, so when morning came I rose early and did a lot of weeding.

When the good mah came down, he started me on making a rockery, and after that painting the veran- dah..

Thus I earned a meil again, and another clean collar.

..

THE LAST DAY.

My last 24 hours of this tramp for work had begun. The week should have finished at nine o'clock next night, or with my third meal, but I had an important engagement on the last day, and my friends with whom I made the wager agreed to off at two o'clock in the let me afternoon.

I had started off on this penulti- mate day about midday, having worked all the morning paying off the splendid "blow out", I had the night before, and my breakfast.

My second meal was earned in quite ordinary fashion. I was given a job to trim a tennis court and clip off with scissors about 350 feet of dead pinks that formed a border round the garden.

Aching in every limb-for as you will see the honest hobo business

...HELPING A D.SO.. means either working or walking:

Towards algat I met the only ser- the whole time except for sleep-I ambled off for Orpington to a friend vice man encountered during the a D.S.O., and took of my last employer. He was out week. He was

at a cricket party. It was Sunday, part in a world-renowned engage and it suddenly dawned on me that ment. He was busy with crazy pay on Sunday the British workman ing there seems a terrible run on requires extra rate of pay. That it just now-and I wired in, at his indication and helped to finish it. was to the good, anyway.

There were plenty of men in the A supper, a bottle of beer, and a front gardens of the villas on Sun- rest in his shed were the reward. day morning. One, was making a contrivance of wooda sort of baby's creche or cage. He seemed glad of help, and I assembled the already cut pieces of this movable little infant prison, and cleaned the family plate, and they gave me a meal for it.

Then came

I was 14 or 15 miles from Lon- don, and about midnight. I got up and started for town on the last lap of the pilgrimage.

Like a horse going home to his stable I legged it, hard, and some time about dawn I reached the office of the Dally Express." Several people on my journey had said, "You ought to write this for the papers, and I thought perhaps I could just dot down a pára- graph or two and that might "Oh, yes yes," I stammered, earn my. breakfast, - - leaving Love 'em, I do."

a poser." "You are fond of babies?" said the lady of the house, having admired the in- terest I took in the creche.

BABY.MINDING.

one more meal to me

win

"I wonder if you would give me a cup of tea and something, and in

do any odd job," I said. return I will wash up the dishes or

"What's the matter with you?" asked the woman. "Aren't you

well?"

I explained that I badly wanted a breakfast, and was willing to work for it.'

That woman had a good heart. "Come Inside, ducky," she said. "You poor thing. Here's a cup of a "hot coffee." She handed out dog" or something of the sort with it.

1.

"But I'm afraid I can't accept unless you will let me werk for it." I said. "You see, I'm doing this for a wager, and I must work for all I get."

This roused the interest of the man immediately.

"Good for you, matey," he said. "Here, have some. cigarettes."

*"I have a bit on sometimes, ducky," said the woman. She was all for discussing the race meetings, and with my mouth full of "hot dog" I tried to join in about the

gee-gers.

GENEROUS COCKNEYS. After I had finished 1 washed up the dishes and cleaned the win- dows, though the woman did not wish "ducky" to do so.

When I left, the woman pushed a packet in my hand.

"A few fags, ducky," she said. The man handed ne his box of matches.

Nobody must ever tell me that Cockneys are not generous.

At 11 o'clock I presented myself at the "Dally Express" office.

"I have what I think is a good paragraph for you," I said. "The only payment I want is that you will stand me a lunch."

I told the story and had my lunch at the Press Club. It was now two o'clock, and my task was done: 1 had won my bet. When I went back to the office from lunch I was asked to write my experiences fully. And thus I have recorded there of course, In addition to winning the £50 wager I have verified my statement at the club..

What are my conclusions on the whole matter? ***

JOBS FOR ANY ONE. First, I am of definite opinion who is not that any honest man afraid of hard work, and who has no dependant, can walk round the countryside within easy reach of London and get odd jobs.

Ha will not get a lot of money! at It, but can earn 108. a day or its equivalent.

Any man trying it should accept my advice.

Don't try to impose on women. They will probably shut the door in your face. .:

Don't call at meal times. Go on till you see a man about his garden or outhouse, and then apply.

:

I am quite sure that a man work- ing, eay, six hours a day could get two jobs, and would receive at least a meal and 31. for each job.

I returned sun-blistered, bone tired, thoroughly weary, but a happy man, my wager won, and in- cidentally feeling better in health than I have felt the last three years.

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