THE OLD HOBO AND OTHER SHORT STORIES BY JOHN EDWIN PARKES

The Old Hobo and Other Short StoriesTHE OLD HOBO: It is mid-1900 when a battered old hobo trudges up along a California Highway and stops to rest at a roadside rest stop. He sees, liking to himself, a weathered old oak tree barely surviving within the rocks on the mountainside opposite the roadside rest stop. He is taken back when a young boy at the roadside rest wants to carve his initials in t...