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" a breathless "Yes-s" those two small faces reminded him much of terriers watching a rat-hole "there was a hobo." He thought hard. "He was a very dirty old hobo he never used to wash his face. He was walking along the road one day when he heard a little wee voice call out 'Hey!. He looked down and he saw an empty tomato-can on a rubbish heap.
"'You shut your mouth! said the old hobo, 'or I'll chuck you into the river! And he poured some of the stuff out of the bottle into the can " At this exciting point poor George halted for breath and mopped his forehead. He felt fully as thirsty as the tomato-can. But the children were upon him, clutching his scarlet tunic: "What did he do then?" howled Jerry.
"That is what I should like to be a hobo with a tomato-can and a fire beside the railroad-track." The man said nothing, and she looked up to encounter a steady gaze from eyes somewhat puzzled. His pupils held a note of pained seriousness, and her voice became responsively vibrant as she leaned forward with answering gravity in her own. "What is it?" she questioned. "You are troubled."
I threw the fire-stick into the water after the mullet and held on to the dynamite. And my arm went off with the stick when it went off. . . . " Slim investigated the tomato-can for water to mix himself a drink, but found it empty. He stood up. "Heigh ho," he yawned, and started down the path to the river. In several minutes he was back.
I could certainly drink a cup of coffee and eat a plate of corned-beef hash on the dock without serious danger of infecting the ship with yellow fever, typhus, cholera, or smallpox; and if the captain should object to my being fed in that way on the ground that the ship's dishes might be contaminated by my feverish touch, I was fully prepared to put my pride in my pocket and meekly receive my rations in an old tomato-can or a paper bag tied to the end of a string.
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