e Michigan State Fair--Three days' co-partnership
with a showman--My partner's family on exhibition--Our
success--Traveling northward--Business increases--Frequent trades in
horses and wagons--The possessor of a fine turn-out--Mr. Keefer again
asks assistance--How I responded--Traveling with an ox-team and cart--A
great attraction--Sold out--Traveling by rail--My return to
Ohio--Meeting the clairvoyant doctor--How I fooled him--Quail, twelve
dollars a dozen--The doctor loses his appetite.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

A co-partnership formed in the auction business--How it ended--A new
friend--His generosity--Exhibiting a talking machine--It failed to
talk--How I entertained the audience--In the role of a Phrenologist.

CHAPTER XXIX.

In the auction business again--A new conveyance for street sales--My
trip through the lumber regions--A successful summer campaign--A
winter's trip through the south--My return to Grand Rapids, Mich.--A
trip to Lake Superior--Selling needles as a side issue--How I did
it--State license demanded by an officer--How I turned the tables on
him--Buying out a country store--A great sale of paper-cambric dress
patterns--A compromise with the buyers--My return to Chicago--Flush and
flying high.

CHAPTER XXX.

Buying out a large stock of merchandise--On the road again--Six weeks in
each town--Muddy roads and poor trade--Closing out at auction--Saved my
credit but collapsed--Peddling polish and jewelry--Wholesaling
jewelry--Fifty dollars and lots of experience my stock in trade--Tall
"hus'ling" and great success--An offer from a wholesale jewelry
firm--Declined with thanks--Hus'ling again--Great success.

CHAPTER XXXI.

Robbed of a trunk of jewelry--Only a small stock left--A terrible
calamity--Collapsed--An empty sample-case my sole possession--Peddling
polish again--Making a raise--Unintentional generosity breaks me
up--Meeting an old partner--The wholesaler supplies me with
jewelry--Hus'ling again with great success--Making six hundred dollars
in one day--My health fails me--I return to Ohio--A physician gives me
but two years to live--How I fooled him.

CHAPTER XXXII.

A friend loans me twenty-five dollars--My arrival in Chicago--Forty
dollars' worth of goods on credit--I leave for Michigan--Effecting a
sale by stratagem--Great success during the summer--Enforcing a
credit--Continued success--Opening an office in the city--Paying my old
debts, with interest--My trip to New York--Buyi