[8] A shebeen. "You must speak easy in a shebeen when the police are around."


CHAPTER XXII THE OPEN ROAD

"The road runs north, the road runs south, and there foot-easy, slow,

The tramp, God speed him! wanders forth, and nature's gentry go.

Gentlemen knights of the gravelled way, who neither toil nor spin,

Men who reck not whether or nay the landlord's rents come in,

Men who are close to the natal sod, who know not sin nor shame,

And Way of the World or Way of the Road, the end is much the same."