hoboing

The world persists in not taking the next step, and what to the social scout looked a dusty bypath may prove to be the highway of progress for the hoboing millions.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

In adolescence, Johnny changed his name to Jack, and set out on his own adventures, on a sealing ship, hoboing on the rails, and in factories.

John London 2007

The only transportation they had, hoboing, get on the train and ride.

Oral History Interview with Gladys and Glenn Hollar, February 26, 1980. Interview H-0128. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1980

Should hoboing prove impracticable, it will be a great disappointment to me, but nothing will ever persuade me to endure the disgrace of recapture and possible deportation.

Links of Empire 1928

Then he explained how he had spent the last summer, "hoboing it," as the phrase was.

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

Weary and hungry as I was from my hoboing, I went right to work, and all night I, with a few others, greased the bearings.

The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922

After the whistle blew for dinner I walked up to the upper end of the yard watching and trying to find out how to catch a train that would take me back to Stonega, Va., for I was sure tired of hoboing.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1918

Yes, I remember the question was brought up when I came back from my first hoboing and my sisters got me going to the Episcopal Mission.

Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

Finns and hoboing about the prairie with a thrashing outfit of the

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

All through the South — at least there were when I was hoboing — are convict camps and plantations, where the time of convicted hoboes is bought by the farmers and where the hoboes simply have to work.

Some Adventures With the Police 1908