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Three of them left and a cook; didn't know where they were; I can't think where they were either, if you come to that; Wiseman must have been on the booze, I guess, to sail the course he did. However, there HE was, dead; and here are the Kanakas as good as lost. They bummed around at sea like the babes in the wood; and tumbled end-on upon Tahiti. The consul here took charge.
He came in last night and bummed his supper my wife had to cook it special and I gave him his bed and breakfast; and this morning when he left he didn't even say: 'Thanks! That's how grateful these hoboes are! And when I went out to pick up his blankets a thumping big purse dropped out!" "Holy Joe!" exclaimed the hobo looking up with sudden interest, "say, how long ago did he leave?"
Railroad workers could get all the passes they wanted, and any toiler whose sister had married a brakeman or whose second cousin was a conductor "bummed" the railroad for a pass and got it. None of my relatives was a railroad man, and so to obtain the free transportation which was every American's inalienable right, I had to let the passenger trains go by and take the freights.
"'Well, says the guy behind the counter, 'Wakefield is in back shooting billiards. We'll soon settle this! "I'd like to go back and see him, I said. "'Don't you go back there, he shouted. 'Don't even think about going back there! You'll drive everybody out. Did you ever take a bath? "'Of course I did, says I. 'But I've bummed my way here and I haven't had a chance to clean up yet.
So Hal began enquiring, and the second one replied, Yes, he would give him a letter to a man at North Valley, and if he got the job, the friend would deduct a dollar a month from his pay. Hal agreed, and set out upon another tramp up another canyon, upon the strength of a sandwich "bummed" from a ranch-house at the entrance to the valley.
There was a whir of looms in it went from house to house; bees bummed in the gardens; the neighbours that I saw at the doorsteps talked in a strange tongue; and I found out later that this was Picardy, a village where the French weavers wrought for the Linen Company.
It was not a month after that that Sherman's prophecy of the quiet general who had slid down the bluff at Belmont came true. The whole country bummed with Grant's praises. Moving with great swiftness and secrecy up the Tennessee, in company with the gunboats of Commodore Foote, he had pierced the Confederate line at the very point Sherman had indicated.
He bummed a tune cheerfully as he climbed the stairs, and was smiling genially when he entered the massive study. He poured out a liqueur and stood sipping it as he turned over the letters brought by the night's post. One arrested him. It had been delivered by hand, and was marked "Most Urgent." He lit a cigar and tore open the envelope. As he read the letter every vestige of colour left his face.
One week passed, and then another, and at last he came back, wet and dripping from his tussle with the river, and cursing the very name of detectives. "W'y, shucks!" he grumbled. "I bummed around in town there for two weeks, hatin' myself and makin' faces at a passel of ornery sheepmen, and what do I git for my trouble? 'Dear Mister Creede, your letter of umpty-ump received.
Every word that he had said was as true as Gospel and he could sit around and wait a life-time but waiting was not his long suit. In Los Angeles he seemed to attract all the bar-flies in the city, who swarmed about and bummed him for the drinks; and no man could stand their company for more than a few days without getting thoroughly disgusted.
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