Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives
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ISBN13: 9780217996952
Paperback|9780217996952
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. MENDICANT TRAMPS INSTANCES WHERE PROMINENT PERSONE HAVE BECOME CONFIRMED TRAMPS. The tramp has always existed in some form or other, and he will continue on his wanderings until the end of time; but there is no question that he has come into public notice, particularly in America, to a greater extent during the present decade than ever before. While he is commonly the outgrowth of conditions of society which will never materially vary, the severe and uuprecedented hard times that have lately been experienced, and which still seem to girdle the entire globe, have manufactured tramps with an alarming rapidity. Where they previously existed as single wandering vagabonds, they now have increased until they travel in herds, and, through the dire necessity of their pitiable condition, justly create some anxiety and alarm. In the olden time, the tramp, or vagabond, was a fellow to be less feared than now, whether because he was loss ferocious naturally, or because ho was more of a mendicant than the highway pirate of the present time. It is stated that the period between 1500 and 1700 was the golden age of tramp mendicants. They were then classified as Stau, l, ler8, Lmsaierx, Klenkers, and Dobixsors. They were born and bred beggars, and with each generation became more and more expert in all the petty tricks of the mendicant. They were not the devil-may-care fellows of more modern times, who often tramped for the mere love of the thing, and who, in many instances, had some object beyondmere tramping which was worthy, like a study of a people or a country by some happy-hearted literary Bohemian. They were the veriest beggars ever known, and were permitted to roam about through the good nature of the authorities and the sufferance of the people, who treated them ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217996952 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217996957 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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