means on the tramp. Both had been working when
smitten by the disease, and both had emerged from
the hospital broke, with the gloomy task before
them of hunting for work. So far, they had not
found any, and they had come to the spike for a
rest up after three days and nights on the street.

It seems that not only the man who becomes
old is punished for his involuntary misfortune, but
likewise the man who is struck by disease or
accident. Later on, I talked with another man,
Ginger we called him, who stood at the head of
the lyie a sure indication that he had been wait
ing since one o clock. A year before, one day, while
in the employ of a fish dealer, he was carrying a
heavy box of fish which was too much for him.
Result: something broke, and there was the box
on the ground, and he on the ground beside it.

At the first hospital, whither he was immediately
carried, they said it was a rupture, reduced the
swelling, gave him some vaseline to rub on it, kept
him four hours, and told him to get along. But he
was not on the streets more than two or three
hours when he was down on his back again. This
time he went to another hospital and was patched
up. But the point is, the employer did nothing,
positively nothing, for the man injured in his em
ployment, and even refused him a light job now
and again, when he came out. As far as Ginger

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