And he answered with perfect simplicity: "No, I wasn't walking for exercise or fun.

There are better and easier ways of acquiring fun than by plodding for hours in the hot sunshine.

And of getting exercise, too.

I was on my way to Homestead or to some farming place along the line, where I might pick up a job." "Oh!" "Yes.

I could probably have gotten a place as dishwasher or even as a 'bus' or porter, in one of the big Miami hotels," he pursued, "or a billet with one of the dredging gangs in the harbor.