However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.