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It is true that there is a punishment inflicted on any person or persons attempting such wanton work a fine or the bastinado; yet neither fine nor bastinado would affect the "tripper" if he could only succeed in carving "'Arry" on the Sphinx's jaw. But he cannot, and herein is his own misery.
Londoners who purchase sprats at an almost nominal price know but little of the hard struggle those who have caught them have to make ends meet. After fishing for a month, Ben Tripper said one Friday evening, "We will run up to Leigh to-morrow and spend Sunday at home. I don't think we shall lose much, for the weather looks bad, and I don't think there will be any fishing to-morrow."
The costumes and customs of a hundred peasantries are there to prove that such ugliness does not necessarily follow from mere poverty, or mere democracy, or mere unlettered simplicity of mind. But though the tripper, artistically considered, is a sign of our decadence, he is not one of its worst signs, but relatively one of its best; one of its most innocent and most sincere.
The Englishman they respect, they know he will make a good husband and a model father; but he is too monogamous to arouse enthusiasm. It is meet and just that the traveller who desires a closer acquaintance with the country wherein he sojourns than is obtained by the Cockney tripper, should fall in love. The advantages of this proceeding are manifold and obvious.
Oddly together with Leslie's feeling for the costly went the insane and indiscriminate avidity of the collecting tourist. "You can't do it," Peter would shrilly and emphatically explain. "It's like a German tripper collecting souvenirs. Things aren't interesting merely because you happen to have been to the places they belong to. What do you want with that bit of glass?
There, I will take the helm now. You had best get the compass up; I can't make out the point sometimes through the mist." An hour and a quarter from the time of getting up the anchor the Bessy was off the point. As soon as the ugly ledge of rocks running far out under water was weathered, Tripper put down the helm. "Haul in the sheet, Tom. That is right; now the sail is over.
That evening Keith went to the address that Phrony had given him. It was a small lodging-house of, perhaps, the tenth rate. The dowdy woman in charge remembered a young woman such as he described. She was ill and rather crazy and had left several weeks before. She had no idea where she had gone. She did not know her name. Sometimes she called herself "Miss Tripper," sometimes "Mrs. Wickersham."
You cannot get the spirit of a landscape unless you sit down and gaze, and let it soak into you. The cheap tripper never sees the lake. You cannot get to know a man until you summer and winter with him. No subject worth studying opens itself to the hasty glance.
And they have a good body of expressive and colourful speech. "On the rocks" is a neat and poetic way of saying "down and out." It is really not necessary to add the word "resources" to the expression "on his own." A "tripper" is a well-defined character, and so is a "flapper," a "nipper," and a "bounder."
One word caught Keith, and his interest awoke. "What wife?" he asked as indifferently as he could. "His wife, his lawful wife, Squire Rawson's granddaughter, Phrony Tripper. I was at the weddin' I was a witness. He thought he could get out of it, and he was half drunk; but he married her." "Where? When? You were present?" "Yes.
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