I just read Orwell's book *Down and Out in Paris and London* a short while ago. I recommend it. There is only one fault of the book -- a chapter where Orwell starts to preach to his readers. That is annoying, but the rest of the book is excellent. It's an account of living on nothing, or next to nothing, first in Paris, and then in England. The need for English tramps to keep moving from one town to another was particularly fascinating. I wondered while reading it whether we could apply the same system to our present vagrant problems.