The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.
Today, they echo to the tramp of modern invading hordes, three million tourists a year, armed with cameras and guidebooks rather than pikes and broad swords.
It is hard for those who regularly lust after alpine scenery to contemplate, but the last two days - flat trekking through forest - are probably the tramp's highlight.
Unlike the Little Tramp's teetering cliffside cabin, accommodations at the Larkspur Hotel are modern, comfortable and right in the middle of town.
Labour tweeters urged party members to be respectful - but the Respect MP George Galloway was in no mood for restraint, tweeting "Tramp the dirt down".
As you tramp down the road there is always regret, always the thought that perhaps if you held on for a little longer things might go right.
The myth that tramps created tramp art still draws many collectors, Wertkin says.
He lived as "a tramp" on the streets of Bournemouth for three years until last year when he was beaten unconscious and left for dead.
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Hikers travel from the shores of Lake Te Anau to the shores of Lake Manapouri via a full-day tramp along an exposed ridge, looking down on the park's namesake fiords.
Mr Stink - about a smelly tramp - goes up against five other books in the seven to 14 category.
And he would not repeal a law letting shooters tramp over private property of less than 20 hectares (100 hectares in the mountains), whatever landowners' wishes.
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