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Updated: May 10, 2025
Jim said that was tough; he says it's back-breakin' work; that quarryin' an' cuttin' ain't nothin' to that ten hours a day, too. My heart's like to break for Mrs. Googe. I think of it ivery time I see her now; an' just look how she's workin' her fingers to the bone to support herself widout help! Mrs.
You look like a tramp." "Yes," he answered bitterly, "I'm a tramp. That's all they'd let me be. I used to be a locomotive engineer before the big strike. Then they blacklisted me, and I've never had a job above laborin' work since. It's easy to take to the road and stay at it when you find you can't make over a dollar a day at back-breakin' work after earnin' three and four at the throttle.
Here's your eighteen dollars, Scraggsy, you lucky old vagabond all clear profit on a neat day's work, no expense, no investment, no back-breakin' interest charges or overhead, an' sold out at your own figger." Captain Scraggs's face was a study in conflicting emotions as he raked in the eighteen dollars. "Thanks, Gib," he said frigidly.
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