I believe, however, that there are a few hoboes who have taken to boys because women are so scarce "on the road.
How the act of unnatural intercourse takes place is not entirely clear; the hoboes are not agreed.
All hoboes carry razors, both for shaving and for defense.
There are a few Jewish wanderers (sometimes peddlers) who are said to have boys in their company, and I am told that they use them as the hoboes in the United States use their boys, but I cannot prove this from personal observation.
I have stated in one of my papers on tramps that, counting the boys, there are between fifty and sixty thousand genuine hoboes in the United States.
Tomato-cans used to be able to talk in those days and the hoboes were very good to them--always used to drink out of them and carry them to save them from walking.
Policemen always lock hoboes up in gaol an' kick them in the stomach, like you see them in the pictures.
That's why hoboes always pack a bottle with them now instead of a tomato-can.
He could not help admitting to himself that under proper conditions they would be just as fine citizens of the country as any one could be, and the phrase "Nearly all hoboes are Americans" kept running in his head.
By that time the hoboes could have quitted the island and lost themselves in the dense woods of the mainland, while Jerry's hiding-place would remain unknown, so that he might even die of neglect.
Seems like these two hoboes must be yeggmen for keeps.
You mean, make it so uncomfortable for the hoboes that they'll be glad to come out and hold up their little hands for us--is that the programme?
Perhaps thehoboes got him, just as they did Jerry.
Then you mean to let 'em set the cabin on fire, and perhaps roast the poor hoboes before our very eyes?
As stated before, this being badly dilapidated, the hoboes had spent some time patching the same the best they knew how.
Those hoboes have done some camping in their day, as sure as you live!
Knew those hoboeswould regret it if ever they ran across the tracks of you four.
If he came down, these angry boys stood ready to attack him; while to stay where he was meant that the hoboeswould be able to reach him.
Suppose those two hoboes rushed out suddenly, do you suppose Pet and his crowd have got sand enough to tackle them?
Those hoboes want something we've got, and they mean to have it if possible.
We may need your assistance, for, to tell the truth, those hoboes looked mighty tough, and I reckon they'll put up some sort of a fight before giving in.
I have good reason to believe those twohoboes laid hold of him, for some reason or other," Frank started.
I reckon one of them hoboes is going to come out up thar, and drop something down on Pet and the fellers.
The hoboesclung to the machine wild-eyed and speechless.
One of the hoboes I brought in half-starved the other day came to my office this morning and told me how to feed the camp.
Now, you needn't all jump on me and say that's silly, because I happen to know those hoboes often gather in regular armies about this time of year, heading for the cities.
The question is, do we want to stand for that couple of greasy hoboes keeping us company while we camp out here in the deserted castle?
Presently the pair ofhoboes appeared to have reached the limit of their endurance.
He, Bunker Hill, who had fed hoboes for years and had never taken a cent, to be insulted like this by the first sturdy beggar that he declined to serve with a meal!
The day seldom passed when Bunker Hill's wife did not cook for three or four hoboes but when Old Bunk called a man in to breakfast he expected him to come.
Here my wife has been slaving over a red-hot stove cooking grub for you hoboes for years and the first bum that forgets and leaves his purse has eight hundred dollars--cash!
As it happens, I know this bit of country, and there are very often some hoboeshanging around the old quarry up that lane.
I wondered how they had transported the Professor to Port Vigor, and thought ironically that it was only that Saturday morning when he had suggested taking the hoboes to the same jail.
The gallant, chivalrous little man, penned up withhoboes and sneak thieves suspected of being a crook.
Browning, and then read this paragraph from the telegraphic columns: "A young Irishman named Barney Mulloy was attacked and killed byhoboes near Sea Cove, on the coast not far from Sandy Hook, yesterday morning.
I shall spend some money in having those hoboes hunted down and punished for their crime.
Hodge, and the light in his dark face showed that he would have done his best to make it hot for the hoboes if he could have put his hands on them.
It's a couple of ragged hoboes they're nagging now," burst out Bobolink.
So far as we knew the hoboes hadn't offered to say a word to Hank and his crowd, but the fellows ran them out of town with a shower of stones.
All I hope now is that on our way back home we can stop off and pay the hoboes a little friendly visit," continued Bobolink.
It wasn't Hank's business to chase the hoboes out of town," said Jack.
Both hoboes made ludicrous haste to elevate their hands as far as they could.
The hoboes are hanging out there, and seem to have plenty to eat, so Jud Mabley told me.
Paul could plainly see the happening in his memory, with the two hoboes turning when at a safe distance to shake their fists at the boys.
Fact is, I reckon Hank's bunch has done more to hurt the good name of Stanhope than all the hoboes we ever had come around here.
How do we know but that they do have hoboes up this way, and that the tramps have taken a shine to our bunks?
Measley hoboes roosting in our nice shack, are they?
I shouldn't think they'd ever be bothered with hoboes or sneak thieves away up in this part of the country," whispered Bluff, who always had a mind of his own and was hard to repress.
Sometimes they were hoboes on whom straggly women shut farm-house doors.
The usual evening meditations and geographical discussions of the monastery of hoboes had been interrupted by collecting garbage and by a quite useless cleaning of dishes that would only get dirty again.
The bunch ain't so very criminal--not for hoboes they ain't.
Gradually the hoboes thawed out and told the Applebys that they had permission from the owner of the land to occupy this winter refuge, but that they liberally "swiped" their supplies from the whole countryside.
But the hoboes about the fire cheered derisively, and as the sheriff disappeared in the woods they surrounded Mother in a circle of grins and shining eyes, and the K.
While his fellow-hoboes about the fire jeered, Father bent over forty times, and raised himself on his toes sixty, and solemnly took breathing-exercises.
Then they must remember that they were really tracking the two hoboes who had stolen the runabout as well as relieved Gusty Merrivale of the pay roll, which the Italian laborers up in his father’s quarries were anxiously expecting.
The hoboes were delivered safely to the police, and were promptly recognized as men long wanted for other crimes along the line of looting country stores.
Up to this point things had been so dreadfully mixed that the hoboes had not been able to understand what it all meant.
Why, he stood ready to grit his teeth, and make light of worse conditions than this while the hope of turning the tables on those hoboes continued to brighten!
Call for volunteers to go back with you, and clean up those hoboes at the old mill, Hugh!
I saw something moving over yonder, and chances are the hoboes have broken loose!
Gus muttered as he heard the last low grumble of the runabout die away up the ascent, proving that the hoboeshad indeed abandoned him there to his fate.
The hoboes seemed to be taking things as easy as they possibly could.
Consequently he had been able to draw something of a map of the interior of the mill, tell where the rusty and worthless machinery lay, and also just about where passing hoboes had always bunked, as the remains of many a cooking-fire proved.
As a rule Bud was not of a vindictive nature, but he could see that the Merrivale boy had not only been robbed but cruelly hammered by the fists of the two ugly hoboes and it riled the scout considerably.
It may be a railroad policeman, or 'bull,' as the hoboes call them.
Mr. Daggett' is too long a handle to use when a man is constantly rescuing you from the perils of the deep or hoboes or bears or something.
To one intimately acquainted with the hoboes I doubt whether the article would have seemed inaccurate, but it was so judged by some critics, and a number of my statements were challenged.
Some say that it comes from the French word pain, and immigrated to the United States from Canada, where the hoboes had heard their Canadian confreres use it; and this may be the case.
Hoboes often carry needles, pins, court-plaster, and the like.
Even the cleanest hoboes cannot keep entirely free of vermin, and they wear underclothes to protect their outer garments, changing the former as often as they can, and throwing away or burning the discarded pieces.
Some twenty hoboes had gathered there for the night, and Bud was among them.
The last time we met he was one of the healthiest hoboes on the "Santa Fe," and now he could just barely move about.
There are also some hoboes who want pie for breakfast, and they have it almost constantly.
Overcoats are worn by the hoboes who go South in winter, but tramps who spend the cold months in jail do not need them, and if they beg any, usually sell them.
Hoboes take most delight in what is called the sack-coat.
Their life in limbo is often voluntary, for although a great many hoboes go South every winter, there are others who prefer a jail in the North, and so whatever hardship they encounter is mainly of their own choosing.
As a general thing the hoboes say in two words as much as ordinary people do in four, and prefer, not only for purposes of secrecy, but also for general intercourse, if in a hurry, to use their own lingo.
The word "elbow," meaning detective, is one of the slang terms common among both hoboes and criminals.
These two States may almost be called the South so far as hoboes are concerned.
The hoboes laughed at me and called me "hoodoo," and I never got in with them in any such garb.
I don't know what excuse those hoboes could find for piling a train in the ditch there.
They were hoboes of a kind, but they were careful to travel incognito when alone.
Friendly hoboes may be called in to take the coat and trousers, which are too large for the kids.
There were eighty-four hoboes with me at the time.
Hoboes had long since warned me never to ride the first blind on trains where the engines took water on the fly.
He'd have never run after me, for two hoboes in the hand are worth more than one on the get-away.
Since hoboes constitute the principal division of the minor offenders, the aforesaid iron cage is called the Hobo.
The text of the message was that eighty-five healthy, hungryhoboes would arrive about noon and that it would be a good idea to have dinner ready for them.
Those eighty-four hoboeswinnowed me out till what little was left of me, by some miracle, found a bit of straw to rest upon.
Her committee of safety was scared stiff by the eruption of two thousand hungry hoboes who lined their boats two and three deep along the river bank.
A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time.
Monicas" are the nom-de-rails that hoboes assume or accept when thrust upon them by their fellows.
Often and often have I met hoboes earnestly inquiring if I had seen anywhere such and such a "stiff" or his monica.
Eighty-four husky hoboes take up a lot of room when they are stretched out.
The two desperate hoboes must have started the second blaze with the same idea in view that had urged them to put the match to the farmhouse--to divert attention while they slipped away.
I notice that you sayhoboes did it, as if nobody doubted that part of the affair," Elmer remarked, significantly.
Perhaps the hoboes got wind of it, and thought they might have a chance to capture the stuff.
Landy, visions of the two desperatehoboes filling his mind.
More'n likely the hoboes are at the bottom of the row!
These two hoboes came along, and he offered them such big wages to help him over his trouble, that they just couldn't resist.
The two hoboes roused themselves, and permitted Blackie to wash his face and hands at the edge of the pond, making fun of him for a delicate greenhorn as they watched him.
He had no idea where thehoboes were going or what they intended to do.
They claim to be connected with the business men who are hunting over on the other side of the valley, but I guess they are just plain mountain hoboes who have been hired to do the dirty work for the sportsmen.
What a snap this would be for some of the hoboes we meet on the Bowery occasionally,” snickered Carl, after the possibilities of escape had been thoroughly gone over.
Would they scold that way if they just happened to see a pair of hoboes eating breakfast, d'ye think?
They had reached the open ground, where no object half the size of a man could evade them, so they felt they need have no fear of either one of the hoboes passing by.
If there's a trail why can't we start in, and track the two hoboes down?
The question is, ought we to arrest the hoboes on account of what they did up at Bailey's farm?
Here most of his fights were as successful as had been his brushes with the hoboes in the West.
The hoboes departed, and with them most of the mysterious-subsistence men.
The hoboes and the class of mysterious subsistence-men were afloat and hungry.
Although they do not belong to the real tramp fraternity, and are disliked by the hoboes proper, they follow the hobo's methods of travel, and are constantly trespassing on railroad property.
I hustle for my grub the way hoboes do,--it's easy enough.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoboes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
