• By autor: J. P. Johnston
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CONTENTS.CHAPTER I.Date and place of birth--My Mother's second marriage--A kind step-father--Raising a flock of sheep from a pet lamb--An established reputation--Anxious to speculate--Frequent combats at home--How I conquered a foe--What a phrenologist said--A reconciliation--Breaking steers--Mysterious disappearance of a new fence--My confession--My trip to New York--The transformation scene--My ...

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Publication Date: January 14, 2016
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According to the author in a subsequent book, this volume outsold the works of Mark Twain, a contemporary, almost entirely by news butchers in the era of steam trains. It may be or may not be the truth. He wasn't above lying. Whenever Johnston nee...

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with my fiddle.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.CHAPTER IX.Continuing the jewelry and spectacle business alone--Trading a watch chain for a horse--Peddling on horseback--Trading jewelry for a harness and buggy--Selling at wholesale--Retiring from the jewelry business.CHAPTER X.Great success as an insurance agent--Sold out--Arrived at Chicago--Selling government goods--Acquiring dissipated habits--Engaged to be married--Broke among strangers--How I made a raise--My arrival home.CHAPTER XI.More help from Mr. Keefer--Off to see my girl--Embarked in the Agricultural-implement business without capital--Married--Sold out--In the grocery business--Collapsed--Running a billiard hall--Collapsed again--Newspaper reporter for a mysterious murder.CHAPTER XII.More help from Mr. Keefer--Six weeks as a horse-trainer--A mysterious partner--Collapsed--How I made a raise--Home again--Father to a bouncing boy.CHAPTER XIII.Engaged in the Patent-right business--My trade with Brother Long--The compromise--My second trade with a deacon--His Sunday honesty and week-day economy--A new partner--The landlord and his cream biscuits--How we headed him off--A trade for a balky horse--How we persuaded him to go--Our final settlement with the landlord.CHAPTER XIV.Our trip through Indiana--How I fooled a telegraph operator--The old landlord sends recipe for cream biscuit--Our return to Ohio--Becoming agents for a new patent--Our valise stolen--Return to Ft. Wayne--Waiting six weeks for Patent-right papers--Busted--Staving off the washerwoman for five weeks--"The Kid" and 'de exchange act'--How the laundry woman got even with us--The landlord on the borrow--How we borrowed of him--Replenishing our wardrobe--Paying up the hotel bill.CHAPTER XV.Our visit to La Grange, Ind.--Traded for a horse--Followed by an officer, with a writ of replevin--Putting him on the wrong scent--His return to the hotel--The horse captured--Broke again--How I