. The land of heather . limpse was to be had ofthe original vehicle. The structure towered aloft ina most astonishing and topheavy manner. Its pro-prietor gave his energies to driving the horse, whilehis wife, loaded with various chairs and flower-standsand other trappings, went from house to house tryingto make sales. A half-grown girl sat in the doorwayof the car with a baby of three weeks in her arms, andseveral other children played around inside and did not count these youngsters, but the man told mehe had eight children in all. He said he travelled allover the island, and that he h
. The land of heather . limpse was to be had ofthe original vehicle. The structure towered aloft ina most astonishing and topheavy manner. Its pro-prietor gave his energies to driving the horse, whilehis wife, loaded with various chairs and flower-standsand other trappings, went from house to house tryingto make sales. A half-grown girl sat in the doorwayof the car with a baby of three weeks in her arms, andseveral other children played around inside and did not count these youngsters, but the man told mehe had eight children in all. He said he travelled allover the island, and that he had a smaller cart that wasfollowing behind. I looked inside the van and foundit crowded with shelves and cupboards, used for storageand sleeping space, with a few feet reserved in onecorner for a small open fireplace. Often two or three of the tinkers known as packfolk* would pass through the place in a single carried their personal belongings and stock intrade on their backs, and I heard the village postmaster. Village Happenings 49 in a moment of humor refer to them as commercialtrivellers. At best they were considered a nuisance,and at worst, when they were coarse and drunken, itwas decidedly unpleasant to find them within one*shome gate. A man tramp was likely to have a power-ful odor of whiskey about him, and ten to one thedrink had made him the tramp he was. Late in theday he, with his pack and an empty bottle, was veryapt to be found lying by the roadside dead might even spend the night there in the ditch. The line separating pedlers from beggars was avery indistinct one, and the latter usually made somepretence of having the vocation of the former, for beg-ging pure and simple is unlawful. The women werethe most inveterate of the beggars. They never lackeda pitiful tale to tell, and they had a whining, decrepitway at the door, not much in keeping with the vigorone would fancy was required for the amount of walk-ing they did. In many instances the femal
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