His commercial instinct, however, together with the wide system of charity which the Jews maintain in every city where they are found, soon enables him to get out of the hobo class.
He becomes a trader of some sort and soon leaves the barrel house and his hobo companions behind him.
The hobo was waiting for me when I came out of the hotel the following morning.
I intended to put the hobo out of business," Walker went on, "but the effect of my words on him were even more startling than I anticipated.
The hobo saw my awakened interest, and he added: "'Did you never notice a man carryin a heavy load?
The hobo jerked out his limp hands in a sort of hopeless gesture.
Then he went on: "I felt like kicking the hobo when he got to me, he was so obviously the extreme of all worthless creatures, with that apologetic, confidential manner which seems to be an abominable attendant on human degeneracy.
I was fairly certain that the hobo had salted the place for me, made the tracks himself; but I played out a line to him.
The hobo paused, and put up his first and second fingers spread like a V.
Then," I said, "why did you begin this story by saying thehobo faked you?
The hobo stepped back with an air of victory and flashed his hand up.
I found a drunkenhobo at Atlantic City who was the best detective I ever saw.
The hobo looked at me without changing his position.
The hobo paused, his mouth open, his head twisted to one side.
It also confirmed me in the opinion that I was all kinds of a fool to let this dirty hobo get a further chance at me.
Walker interrupted his narrative with a comment: "It's the truth I've verified it a thousand times since that hobo put me onto it.
It may be that, well, the hobo who is with Sam has reason to be afraid of the officers of the law on account of something or other he’s done.
Gus had given Hugh some money which his mother placed in his keeping for the purpose of buying Sam a new outfit, if, indeed, it turned out that the sick hobo up at the lumber camp were the missing one.
All I c’n say is that fortune played us a mean trick when that hobo saw us coming along.
The oath died on his lips and he remained staring at the hobo as a sudden thought struck him.
The hoboprotested that he had neither seen nor heard anyone else taking out, or bringing in, a horse during the night.
The hobo was sitting slumped in a chair, as Slavin had left him.
Besides" chimed in Redmond, eagerly, "that yarn of his about that hobo swiping his dough, Sergeant!
Advancing towards them, and puffing with exertion and importance, they beheld Nick Lee, haling along at arm's length an unkempt individual whom they judged to be the hobo who had disturbed his peace of mind.
Rum thing, though," he murmured, "the way that hobo did beat us to it.
He said that for a hobo Wilfred wrote very good poetry, better than most hobos could write, he thought, and that Henrietta always knew what she was doing.
What did Wilfred Lennox, the hobo poet, have to do with Mr. Ben Sutton, of Nome, Alaska?
Some said he not only wasn't a hobo but wasn't even a poet," she presently murmured, and smoked again.
It is probable that low mutterings might have been heard among 'em, especially after a travelling man that was playing pool said the hobo poet had come in on the Pullman of No.
In fact, I did him an injustice I knew he wasn't a poet, but I didn't believe he was even a hobo till he jumped that freight.
I am the hobo poet, I lead a merry life: One day I woo the Muse, the next, Another fellow's wife!
A box car loomed in the centre of the main picture, "The Affinity Nest of the Hobo Poet," I think it was legended .
Each is compelled by hobo law to let his jocker do with him as he will, and many, I fear, learn to enjoy his treatment of them.
A colored boy succeeded in scrambling into the car, and when the train was well under way again he was tripped up and "seduced" (to use the hobo euphemism) by each of the tramps.
REST= A trade in which every hobo holds a Union Card for life.
From what I learn you were a Hobo when Jack Corliss gave you a job.
THE HOBO Is carelessly built, a fire-place usually surrounding a shallow pit, the sides built up with sods or stones.
The hobo answers for a hasty fire over which to boil the kettle (Fig.
Sam at the bunk-house and see if a hobo has just struck there, on his way to Amarillo.
There was nothing to mar the friendliness of the dinner, however; not even when Ming slipped back and said in a low voice to the Captain: "Him Slilent Slam say no hobo come to blunk-house.
The hobo ate two halves of chicken, drained his cup of coffee and started to get down from his stool.
I thought every telegraph pole was a hobo laying for me, clean down to the station.
To illustrate the idea: A tramp or hobo, if he tried to be as good a tramp or hobo as he could, would be born next time to be a roustabout, deck hand, or day laborer.
He was no namelesshobo of the great army of the unemployed.
The Watermelon told them briefly how from a nameless hobo a few short hours before, he had become a famous young financier, hobnobbing with generals and millionaires.
Old clothes or good, hobo or millionaire, without Billy, one was as desirable as the other.
At all events I'm a harmless hobo and quite willing to pay when I put my fellow-man to inconvenience.
He had heard in a club of a hobo whose nails were clean, whose address was elegant and who had confounded surgeons on surgery, artists on art, poets on verse and theologues on theology.
Nope," was the answer, "but I can hobo all right, all right.
I thought you were a hobo after my chickens, or trying to bluff me into a free meal this morning.
And in between whiles I have hiked every path that the hobo knows between the oceans.
The thing to do," suggested young Dodd, still watching the girl, "is get something on that hobo and boot him out of town or put him in jail.
From long experience the lady was a reader of character--of hobo character at least--and she saw nothing in the appearance of either of these two that inspired even a modicum of confidence.
Grayson having arranged for these felt that he had done all that might be expected of a host, especially when the uninvited guest was so obviously a hobo and doubtless a horse thief as well, for who ever knew a hobo to own a horse?
I’m just a hobo, an’ it’s fair game to kick a hobo when yer gets ther chance.
God made little apples, a hobo sang in Kankakee, Shattered apples, I picked you up under a tree, red wormy apples, I ate you.
A dollar is the usual charge for a division, which is anywhere from one hundred to two hundred miles, but when a hobo attempts to go without paying, he is generally treated pretty rough, if not thrown from the train and killed.
Franck now placed his grip in the express office and bade me good-bye, saying he was going to hobo it to Los Angeles.
There's an old saying, which I afterwards learned: "To hobo the roads successfully, one has to give up all thought of life or death.
Even to hobo the roads, a man needs money, and I decided to stake up a bit before continuing my way.
The conductor, agent and others came hurrying to the engine to see the man who had daredhobo under the boiler.
No one discovered the poor, thirsty hoboin the coke car.
Many a poor hobo has been put down in this country by a heartless brakeman, and left to die on the desert, of thirst, but, as yet no one on the train had seen me.
Sometimes the detective thus employed dresses himself like a tramp orhobo and appeals to the engineer, baggageman or conductor to help him get to a certain point.
This was a hobo jungle, pitched in a thin strip of woods that lay between a railroad embankment and the bank of a river.
So deep-sunk was he in the social abyss that a proper hobo would not sit by the same fire with him.
Briefly, I'm a hobo with a weakness for good society, and yet a friend of the under dog.
Conscious of my unworthiness, I plead guilty to being Hood--Hood thehobo delectable, the tramp incomprehensible!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hobo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
