They Didn't, Indeed

A cotiple of tramps had sat down under a tree by the roadside to rest. "Wasn't yon in the war?" asked Willie Walk. "I were," responded Turnpike Walker. " 'N' why don't you git a pension?" "I tried to, but it wouldn'tget, somehow " "Why not?' "They said I was capable of manual labor." "Did they, indeed?" "They did, Willie," sighed Turnpike, disconsoiately. Willie brushed a tear from his weather-beaten eye. "My boy," he murmured, "they didn't know yon; they didn't know yOu."-