prescription for the deaf woman--Collapsed, and in debt for
board.

CHAPTER XX.

Engaged to manage the hotel--The doctor my star boarder--Discharging all
the help--Hiring them over again--The doctor as table waiter--The
landlady and the doctor collide--The arrival of two hus'lers--How I
managed them--The landlady goes visiting--I re-modeled the house--My
chambermaid elopes--Hiring a Dutchman to take her place--Dutchy in
disguise--I fooled the doctor--Dutchy and the Irish shoemaker.

CHAPTER XXI.

The doctor swindled--How we got even--Diamond cut diamond--The doctor
peddling stove-pipe brackets--His first customer--His mishap and
demoralized condition--The doctor and myself invited to a country
dance--He the center of attraction--The doctor in love with a cross-eyed
girl--Engaged to take her home--His plan frustrated--He gets even with
me--We conclude to diet him--The landlady returns--Does not know the
house.

CHAPTER XXII.

Out of a position--Moved to Ann Arbor--How I made a raise--A return to
furniture polish--Selling experience--Hauling coke--My summer clothes in
a snow-storm--A gloomy Christmas--An attack of bilious
fever--Establishing an enforced credit--The photograph I sent my
mother--Engaged as an auctioneer at Toledo, Ohio--My first sale.

CHAPTER XXIII.

A successful auctioneer--Playing a double role--Illustrating an auction
sale.

CHAPTER XXIV.

My employer called home--I continue to hus'le--An auctioneering
co-partnership--Still in a double role--A neat, tidy, quiet
boarding-house--We move to a hotel--A practical joke--Auctioneering for
merchants--Making a political speech--Getting mixed.

CHAPTER XXV.

I continue to sell for merchants--Well prepared for winter--Trading a
shot-gun for a horse and wagon--Auctioneering for myself--Mr. Keefer
needing help--How I responded--Turning my horse out to pasture--Engaged
to sell on commission--How I succeeded--Out of a job--Busted--How I made
a raise--A return to the Incomprehensible--Peddling with a horse and
wagon--Meeting an old friend--Misery likes company--We hus'le
together--Performing a surgical operation--A pugilistic encounter--Our
Wild-west stories--Broke again--A hard customer--Another raise.

CHAPTER XXVI.

Helping a tramp--We dissolve partnership--My auction sale for the
farmer--How I settled with him--I resume the auction business for
myself--My horse trade--I start for Michigan.

CHAPTER XXVII.

Auctioneering at th