But those stokers! And those other stable-maids! Pow! We had to fight 'em from one end of the voyage to the other, and it got so that I bit myself in my sleep.

The three of us got eight shillings apiece when we landed at Liverpool, and tickets back, but there were several little things about Europe that bothered us, and we thought we'd see what the trouble was." They "hoboed" it through England, France, and Belgium, working at any old job until they gathered money enough to move along, whether it was carrying water to English navvies or unloading paving-blocks from a Seine boat.

After three joyous months, they felt the call of the cattle, and came home on another steamer.
Back on his native heath, young Fairbanks took a shot from the hip at law, but missed.

Then he got a job in a machine-manufacturing plant, but one day he found that his carelessness had permitted fifty dollars to accumulate, and he breezed down to Cuba and Yucatan to see what openings there were for capital.

Back from that tramping trip, he figured that since he had not annoyed the stage for some time it certainly owed him something.
His return to the drama took place in "The Rose of Plymouth Town," a play in which Miss Minnie Dupree was the star.