Delving into the remains of our vast experience, we are able to inform you that hoboes are people who fling themselves on to freight trains in a desperate attempt to escape work, and, having arrived at a town, knock on its door and boast that they have not had a feed for nine consecutive years.
Leonard (Lennie) Waldemar Lower (24 September 1903 - 19 July 1947) was an Australian humourist who is still considered by many to be the comic genius of Australian journalism.
Lower was born in Dubbo, New South Wales. His father was a pharmacist and his mother was Florence McInerney. Educated in Sydney, Lower joined the army for a brief time before turning to journalism, where his talents as a humorist soon gained him a legion of dedicated fans and a place in Australian history. He wrote up to eight columns each week for a variety of newspapers in Sydney during the Depression and World War II.