 After a month of this, he decided he could do the job while riding in comfort as a passenger.After several years of experience as a vagrant, he had published "Tramping with Tramps" in 1899, a picaresque study.His further works dealing with the lower and criminal classes include "The Powers that Prey" (1900), a collection of short stories written in collaboration with Alfred Hodder (writing pseudonymously as Francis Walton), "Notes of an Itinerant Policeman" (1900), "The World of Graft" (1901), a volume of short stories, and "The Little Brother" (1902), his only sustained attempt in fiction.