11 Jan 1930 Jahr - Orwell meets Paddy

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In the "Spike" Orwell was living in, he becomes good friends with a "tramp", or hobo, named Paddy. Orwell spends an entire chapter describing Paddy and his behaviors, both remarking his jackal-like characteristics as well as praising his honesty and pride.

"He was horribly ashamed of being a tramp, but he had picked up all a tramp’s ways ... ‘Best leave it. It don’t do a man no good to steal. T’ank
God, I ain’t never stolen nothin’ yet.’ It was funk, bred of hunger, that kept him virtuous. With
only two or three sound meals in his belly, he would have found courage to steal the milk ... His ignorance was limitless and appalling. He once asked me, for instance, whether Napoleon lived before Jesus Christ or after ... Nevertheless, he was a good fellow, generous by nature
and capable of sharing his last crust with a friend; indeed he did literally share his last crust with me more than once ... It was malnutrition and not any native vice that had destroyed his manhood."

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