"Why haven't they?"

"Ach, begorra, I dunno except for the same raisin that a fish hasn't
no horns!"

We retraced our steps to the drugstore and the tailor-shop and the
hardware store, and paid our bills and I handed over what was left to
Tim.

This experiment taught me more than it taught Tim. It made a better
student of me. I had investigated the cases of a hundred men in that
same bunk-house--their nationality, age and occupation--and I had
tried to find out the cause of their failure. And my superficial
inquiry led me to the conclusion that the use of intoxicating liquor
was the chief cause.

The following table shows the trade, nationality and age of one of our
Sunday audiences in the B---- bunk-house. The audience numbered 108,
and were all well-known individually to the Lodging House Missionary.


_Trade_

Engineer 1
Waiter 1
Watchman 1
Labourers 17
'Longshoremen 7
Junkmen 3
Mechanics 3