A MODERN TRAMP.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4596, 3 September 1923, Page 1

A MODERN TRAMP.

(By “ Touchstone,” in the Overseas Daily Mail). Wholesome if somewhat homely fare, Not too drastje a moral code And a leisured life in the open air. As he slouches along down the open road; These are the things that make life good Tp one of the tramping brotherhood. A primitive life, it seems, no doubt, For these, who are paying but little heed To the wonders that compass them all about, For the easy vagrant has little need Of modern methods —and yet they say He covers the ground in a wonderful way. Distances quite unknown of old He travels unweried at such a pace As leaves our athletes out in the cold. Yet he never seems to be running a race And he never becomes unduly warm While keeping up tp his Marathon form. But watch where under a summer sky A lorry lurches and rumbles by William the weary is slogging on. And lo ! as it passes the man is gone For who would walk when science designed A chariot where he may hang behind ?