Are you travelin’ for pleasure?”

“On business,” said Tony.

What is your business?”

“I want to find work,” said Tony.

You’re a good, stout youngster. You’d ought to get something to do.”

“So I think,” said Tony.

Got any folks?”

“If you mean wife and children, I haven’t,” answered our hero, with a smile.

Ho, ho!” laughed the peddler. “I guess not. I mean father or mother, uncles or aunts, and such like.”

“No, I am alone in the world.”