"Maybe yer have, an' maybe yer haven't."
"Where do you come from?"
"Me? I'm an Ohio man, I am, and I ain't ashamed to own it. Ohio's best State in the Union."
"So you are from Ohio. Were you ever in and around Brookville and Caswell?" went on our hero, suddenly.
"Sure. I spent two months in that district not very long ago. But I had to git out, I did." And the tramp chuckled again.
"What made you get out?" And now Nat was all attention.
"Folks didn't like me around."
"Didn't you treat them fairly?"
"Sure I did, but they thought their barns was too good for Tom Nolan to sleep in."
"And that's why they chased you away, eh?"