Unit 3 The Happy Story of a Tramp.
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1. Mrs Healey:Well, I gather that he came from somewhere in Kent and I think the situation was that he lived with his father
who was practically illiterate and he was probably somewhat inadequate, too, you know, as the young boy. And when the father died and so he just took to the roads
and he tramped and ended up in this area and earlier when he was younger he used to do a tremendous circle of right up to the Midlands right down by Tewkesbury and all the way. (Ann:My Goodness!)]]>2. So he used to appear here only very intermittently, you know. And then as he got older and his feet got very bad giving him a lot of trouble and
his circle became narrower and narrower until in the end it was quite small just round the villages around here.]]>3. And then when I came across him, er, I used to give him meals and any clothing we had, a few shillings and that sort of thing. And so
in the end he really sort of came this way quite frequently. Ann: Ah, so you had known him quite a while before. Mrs Healey: Oh, yes, indeed, yes, indeed, I've known him for a long time. He used to come in the end about once a week-end, I gave him meal and then in between times I gave him food that he could cook on fires by the roadsides and so on, you know, old clothes, that sort of thing.]]>4. And he kept saying then that he did not know how he could continue because his feet were frightfully deformed with all this walking Ann: Really? Mrs Healey: We couldn't even give him shoes! He could only wear old wellingtons because he couldn't get his feet into shoes, you know. And it was becoming more and more difficult for him.
And then I said to him, 'If we could find you a place, would you settle down?' And he said, 'I'd love to.' - he really was dying to because he was tired, really tired (yes) of this by that time, (yeah) you know.]]>5. And so I brooded around and I couldn't see anything and then I had this idea 'What if we had a caravan and he could be there?'
Then my husband told me if he is getting on for seventy, and he said he was, he should be getting an old-age pension.
And so he went along to see the Ministry of Social Security and they were awfully nice but they said, 'Honestly, we can't because, er, if we gave every person of no fix abode, erm, they could disappear overnight and it just doesn't work.']]>6. So we had this idea to have the caravan and that was it - I put it to the girls and they were very keen. Ann: The girls ... Mrs Healey: The girls at the school (yes) because they used to meet him, you see, at our Domestic Science section - it's down in the ... the Sixth Form College a mile away (yeah) and they used to come back with the things they cooked - little cakes, and biscuits, and things. And they used to meet him and they always shared with him because they'd got to know him through my talking about him, you know. ]]>7. Ann: How kind of them. Mrs Healey: And er so of course when I put this idea to them they were thrilled (Mm) and they all set about with brilliant ideas, you know. Ann: What sort of things did they do to raise their money? Mrs Healey: Oh, they washed cars and they gave all their pocket money they, each girl ... each form had a Form Captain, and the form captain more or less passed around the hat, you know,
for their pocket money and they all contributed in that way. They washed cars, they did odd jobs for people and got paid for it and so it gradually mounted up and then we were doing the Mikado the Tzar production for that year.]]>8. And one of the girls simply stood at the door when all the parents and guests were leaving with a box and said, 'Contribute!' (laughing) and which they did very ..., you know.
They were very kind about that, too. And so in the end we got enough.
Then one of the girls' parents, a girl called Angela Kenlock, her parents were awfully kind they rang me up and said, 'We think we can get over a caravan,'
not the holiday type but the old-fashioned kind that you use to have on the end of the steam roller when they made roads and stayed overnight (Oh, yes) or something. ]]>9. Mr Rutley, the old boy, he said, he called it the shepherds' hut - much the same thing it's a square box thing much stronger in fact than the holiday type and far better, you know,
in that way - weatherproof and cosy and anything else, you see.
So he got hold of that and then he spent the whole weekend decorating and painting the inside and the outside. ]]>10. And er then he got hold of a tractor. He towed it all the way from Whitney on a tractor on a bitterly cold day.
The tractor was the only way because the road down to that place we were going to site it is simply a cart-track, you know, and he brought it on that day. And er he had been living in this, sleeping roughly on the bed of hay,
in this barn by the edge of the woods and that's where we'd got permission to put it from the city owners.]]>11. And er, you see, you can imagine how surprised he was we turned up complete with everything - bed, bedding, cutlery, crockery.
The only thing we hadn't got at that time was a cooker and we had everything else we put all up and I said to him, 'I don't think perhaps you shouldn't sleep in tonight,' because it smelled of fresh paint, you know, terribly.
He wouldn't break, he was in a bad night, he wouldn't really. He was so thrilled. (Yeah) He was dazed, he was absolutely dazed, you know.
And I said to him, 'Now, what you have to remember is that this is your very very own. Everything in it is your own. Nobody can ever move you away because this is yours, this is yours till you die.
And he could not believe it, you know, he really could not believe it and it was awfully cosy.]]>12. Ann: So now he's settled down and become part of the village? Mrs Healey: Oh, absolutely! And he's so different - you could have seen him! He used to come through the village almost double bent... double, you know,
with his sack and fuel, tins and everything for cooking on the roadside and now he is as straight as a soldier.
(Really?) And he is so spruce and jaunty, you know, and he raises his hat 'Good morning, lady!' you know.
He is thrilled with himself, he really is, and he looks twenty years younger at least. He really does. (Yeah) He looked so tired and so despairing and so hopeless and so miserable and now he is all
smiles and he took it along on the tricycle
- we got him that also by a sheer stroke of luck.]]>13. Ann: So he now has his own transport as well? Mrs Healey: Oh, yes, he took a long way on his tricycle with the shopping bag in the front, picks up his pension every Monday and his groceries and then passes my house
and collects his milk and bread and leaves the money religiously every week,
and takes it all for miles to his little house. Ann: There, that's wonderful. Mrs Healey: Isn't it wonderful? Ann: Yes, it's such a happy sort of story.]]>14. Mrs Healey: Well, he is such a nice old man, you know, he never ever ever asked for anything he didn't need. Never.
And another funny thing about, and a nice thing about it was that the village grocery store here - he used to pop in there occasionally when he had a few shillings and apparently he had been
walking around here and someone from quite far away, Tewkesbury or somewhere recognized him from the days when his circle was much bigger, you know.]]>15. And it seems that they went home, this man and his wife, and it was a cold day and they were sitting at the fire and thinking how lucky they were and worrying about the old boy
they came back the next Sunday
and they left ten pounds in the shop
and said, 'If the old boy comes in, give him what he wants and when that money is run out, let me know and I'll replenish it.' Ann: Good heavens! Mrs Healey: Which was so nice and in fact just at that time he'd got his pension in his little house so he finished the ten pounds and said,
'When this is finished, would you tell the person whoever it is that I am all right now. Thank you very much.'
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