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people in some ways. They were full of character and independence, and within their own code they were absolutely honorable.

I remember being stopped on the street once by a man who had on a kind of battered straw hat, a shabby little suit and so on. He said to me, “Lady, could you let me have a quarter? I haven't had anything to eat today.”

I looked at him. I was still pretty young, but I was on to some of these tricks and I said, “But you look as though you're pretty well fed. You look as though you had something to eat yesterday. Didn't you?”

He said, “Oh, no, lady, I haven't had anything to eat at all. Look, lady, what it says in the Good Book.” He pulled the New Testament out of his pocket. He said, “It says in the Good Book that you should share your cross with me.” He showed me the passage.

I looked him right in the eye and said, “Now, why did you have to pull that on me? I know what you are when you pull that.”

“Oh,” he said, putting it away, “so you're on to it, are you? Well, you're right, lady. I didn't think from the looks of you that you would know. Sure, I'm one of Eads How's boys.”

I shook him warmly by the hand and said, “well, I'm glad to meet you. Tell me about Eads How's boys.”

He told me about it. I said, “I don't know whether