A DAY WITH A TRAMP
PREFACE
The following narratives, like those publishedin the series of “The Workers,” Eastand West, are drawn from notes taken duringan expedition made ten years ago. In thesummer of 1891 I began an experiment ofearning my living as a day laborer and continuedit until, in the course of eighteenmonths, I had worked my way from Connecticutto California.
In justice to the narratives it should beexplained that they are submitted simply forwhat they are, the casual observations of astudent almost fresh from college whose interestin life led him to undertake a work forwhich he had no scientific training.
Princeton, October, 1901.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| A Day with a Tramp | 1 |
| With Iowa Farmers | 41 |
| A Section-Hand on the Union Pacific Railway | 91 |
| “A Burro-Puncher” | 127 |
| Incidents of the Slums | 163 |
A DAY WITH A TRAMP
He was an American of Irish stock; hisname was Farrell; he was two-and-twenty,a little more than six feet high, andas straight as an arrow. We met on the lineof the Rock Island Railway just west ofMorris, Ill.
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