A Tramp's Diary.
A tramp was lately charged with theft before the Surrey, England, magistrates. His case proved once more the dangers of a diary, for his' told 'how in several months he had done but twp days' work. One is tons distressingly described :— • All day tying up wheat. Awful work. Every bone seemed to quiver. Come to the conclusion work only fit for slaves.' The other day's work is described as ' Awful I All the steam taken out of you. More money earned by cadging. Governor (i c. employer) insolent, and not pleased.' Then comes an entry :— ' Called at the house of a gentleman at Caterham. Treated like a Christian. The daughter a beautiful girl, the image of purity.' At Relgate he 'saw a charming girl, about fourteen, standing at a lodge gate. Gave her a sweet kiss, and passed on.' He further records details of his ingenious pilferings, and occasionally ripples into rhyme : — I count no day as done Till good hath crossed it, Calm may my future run, And joy surround it.
The impresion lefc by the diary on most minds will be that tramping, in summer especially,- is about fifty times pleaaanter, while infinitely better paid, than agricultural labour.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 28
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203A Tramp's Diary. Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 28
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