LIVING THREE DAYS ON A SHILLING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10001, 23 March 1910, Page 4

LIVING THREE DAYS ON A SHILLING.

In the February number of "Chmbers' Jounral" one of the very interesting articles is the Rev. Thomas Hannan's account of "Tramps I Have Met." It is very curious, he writes, when one goes in for the kind of philanthropy involved in giving employment to tramps, how seldom the kind of tramp you want turns up just when you want him. Two years ago, a distressed but cultured foreigner came to me, anxious to do translation work. He would be quite use fui now, as I happen to have some papers to translate; but I had none then. He was a German, and was too superior for me to thitik ot offering him garden work In addition, he was- surprised tnut his sister, who was coming over to be a agoverness somewhere, had : not called on me to inquire about him. His o e fiesire no was t> gtt back to ~he fatherland. So I g«»ve him a

shilling to help towards the accomplishment of that laudable object. It is quite wonderful what a shilling can do in the hands of a competent financier; but my friend did not get far on his way to Germany. In fact, that shilling only carried him half a mile; and I propound this i for the reader who is fond of solvI ing riddles that although it was spent in less than two hours, it supported him for three days. Of course,the answer is that he was "run in" little further along the road in the early afternoon, for being "drunk and disorderly"—on my shilling—and was placed nest day on the horns of the dilemma expressed in , the formula, "ten and sixpence or ! three days."