The fellow looked like the typical tramp, perhaps not quite so ragged and dirty, but still in that class.

"The ticket swindlers!" CHAPTER XVI RINGS OF FIRE Instantly Joe Strong lost interest in the "tramp fire-eater," as he afterward came to call the man.

" "Having trouble, eh?" asked the tramp, who had moved a little to one side.

" "Old Bill!" murmured the tramp.

The other thought was that the tramp fire-eater was up to some trickperhaps he was jealous of Joe's success and his own failure and wanted to spoil some of Joe's apparatus.

The former tramp had much valuable information regarding the old style fire-eating tricks, and though he was not up to the task of doing them himself, he gave Joe good advice.

The tramp of fifteen million armed men is the greatest social and economic fact of the present day, and indeed of the present generation.

under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.

walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.

The city of Washington resounded with the wheels of artillery and the tramp of cavalry; the workshops were busy night and day to supply arms and ammunition; and the best officers devoted themselves, without rest, to the work of drilling and disciplining the mass.

Looking up, he recognized, to his amazement, the tramp with whom he had had an adventure some weeks before in Pentonville.

"I see you know me," said the tramp, with a smile.

The tramp, as we may call him for want of a different name, certainly showed signs of improvement in his personal appearance.

But how could Squire Davenport so wickedly try to cheat us of our little property?" "My dear boy," said the tramp, shrugging his shoulders, "your question savors of verdancy.

I am a tramp no longer, but a respectable and, I may add, well-to-do citizen.

"She is revelling with Hopkins and Captain Evans,men that she did tramp the country with as vagabond players, ere the Spaniard taught them more profitable wickedness.

Their tramp had been a delightful one, and so far success had crowned their expedition.

Away to the north-west is Sandsend Ness, a bold headland full of purple and blue shadows, and straight out to sea, across the white-capped waves, are two tramp steamers, making, no doubt, for South Shields or some port where a cargo of coal can be picked up.

Outside the guides wait, Joseph and Aloys, and away we tramp in single file along the little path that runs through fields full of wild flowers, drenched with dew, into a fairy-tale wood of tall, straight pine-trees.

A few minutes later they heard the tramp of a horse's hoof.

The white roads of France stretched away straight between the fields and the hills, with endless lines of poplars as their sentinels, and in clouds of greyish dust rising like smoke the regiments marched with a steady tramp.

This unfortified town has never echoed in the war to the tramp of German feet, and its women's courage has not been dismayed by the worst horrors.

I awakened out of a drowsy sleep to hear the tramp of innumerable feet.

The town, which had resounded to the tramp of British regiments and to the tune of "Tipperary," these streets through which had surged a tide of fugitives, with wave after wave of struggling crowds, had become a silent place, with only a few shadows creeping through the darkness of that evening in war, and whispering a fear.

It was a part of the wreckage and wastage of the war, and to the onlooker, exaggerating unconsciously the importance of the things close at hand and visible, it seemed terrible in its significance, and an ominous reminder of 1870, when through Amiens there came the dismal tramp of beaten men.