Worldwide, every country has its own wanderers. (Googled images; thanks google) Gypsies, Nomads, those who are constantly on the move, never settling to a permanent address, although many groups, (tribes/clans) often have a defined winter or summer area. They move in, stay awhile, move on. Back in the depression days, solitary men in Australia, who moved from area to area doing odd jobs for a few shillings or just a bag of flour and some tea, were called Swagmen. The Swags they carried on their backs were usually a change of clothing, a few eating and cooking utensils, sometimes notepaper and a pencil, all tightly rolled up in a blanket, and slung across the back. From this usually hung a billy for boiling water to make tea, sometimes a pot or frypan for cooking food, a bag containing the essentials; flour, sugar, tea, salt, maybe some jam for the damper they cooked in place of bread. A hat strung with corks to keep flies away from the face completed ...
