0 in the past, a man who went round the streets of a town to buy old clothes, furniture, and other unwanted things cheaply --
One has the bag on his back, held in place by shoulder straps; the other has a bag thrown over his shoulder like a ragman.
It went perforce to the ragman, if he would condescend to accept it.
Many were moth-eaten and past redemption; those went to the ragman.
The ragman was paying too good a price for them.
Give them to the ragman, or send them to the county or city poor house.
You would have the effect of a ragman at a meeting of emperors.
Why are we not more curious about the ragman's story and that of the bootblack and the man who keeps the fruit store?
The ragman takes to an ancestral business and chants the ancient song of his fathers.
