CHAPTER II.
My mother wishes me to learn a trade--My burning desire to be a live-stock dealer--Employed by a deaf drover to do his hearing--How I amused myself at his expense and misfortune.
CHAPTER III.
Selling and trading off my flock of sheep--Co-partnership formed with a neighbor boy--Our dissolution--My continuance in business--Collapse of a chicken deal--Destruction of a wagon load of eggs--Arrested and fined my last dollar--Arrived home "broke."
CHAPTER IV.
Borrowing money from Mr. Keefer--Buying and selling sheep pelts--How I succeeded--A co-partnership in the restaurant business--Buying out my partner--Collapsed--More help from Mr. Keefer--Horses and Patent rights.
CHAPTER V.
Swindled out of a horse and watch--More help from Mr. Keefer--How I got even in the watch trade--My patent right trip to Michigan and Indiana--Its results--How a would-be sharper got come up with.
CHAPTER VI.
My new acquaintance and our co-partnership--Three weeks' experience manufacturing soap--The collapse--How it happened--Broke again--More help from Mr. Keefer--A trip to Indiana--Selling prize soap with a circus--Arrested and fined for conducting a gift enterprise--Broke again.
CHAPTER VII.
Eleven days on a farm--How I fooled the farmer--Arrived at Chicago--Running a fruit stand--Collapsed--My return home--Broke again--A lucky trade.
CHAPTER VIII.
Three dollars well invested--Learning telegraphy--Getting in debt--A full-fledged operator--My first telegraph office--Buying and selling ducks and frogs while employed as operator--My resignation--Co-partnership in the jewelry and spectacle business--How we succeeded--Our dissolution.