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My mother said "it was merely a streak of good luck." Mr. Keefer said "he didn't know about that." She said I had better leave enough with them to pay that note of one hundred and fifty dollars, which would soon come due, but Mr. Keefer said it wasn't due yet and there was no hurry about it anyhow, and that I had better invest it in that soap business. I returned to Toledo, where I met Mr.
Keefer, took my seat in the cart and continued north, reaching a small village just at sundown, where I made my usual parade, ringing the bell and crying out for everybody to come on Main street and witness the great performing feats of trained oxen. I think everybody must have responded; at any rate I actually made the best two hours' sale I had ever made in the auction business.
I then decided to make the chicken business a specialty, believing that the profits were large enough to pay well. Mr. Keefer loaned me a horse, and after building a chicken-rack on my wagon, I started out on my new mission. There was no trouble in buying what I considered a sufficient number to give it a fair trial, which netted me a total cost of thirty-five dollars.
Keefer to one side, informed him on the quiet about my shortage of seventy-five dollars and suggested going to the bank and borrowing about a hundred dollars, as it would be necessary for me to have a few dollars to "sort of bridge me over" till I could get on my feet again. He said he guessed that would be all right, so we borrowed the money.
I then turned it all over to him, as I felt it was too slow to suit me. I had been there six months, and left with about that many hundred dollars. We proceeded to Ohio, and explained to my folks "just how it all happened." My mother said "she couldn't see how I had managed to live so long without a wife." Mr. Keefer said "he'd bet it was the best thing that ever happened to me."
My mother said "she always thought I would turn out a gambler anyhow, and didn't expect anything else when I left home, only that I would lose all I had before getting back." Mr. Keefer said "it was too bad, and I ought to have knocked the whole top of that clerk's head off for getting me into such habits." The next day I called Mr.
Keefer said he believed I would strike something "yet" that I would make money out of. My mother said she couldn't understand why he should think so; everything had been a failure thus far. He explained his reasons by reminding her that with all my misfortunes, not one dollar had been spent in dissipation or gambling, but invariably in trying to make money, and with no lack of energy.
That day he called on a friend who loaned him the few dollars I needed, and as he handed it to me he said: "I know it will all come right some day." I now began to realize what a pleasure it would be could I embark in a well-paying business, just at the time when Mr. Keefer was in adverse circumstances.
We left my family there and went over to Fremont, where by accident we met Mr. Keefer and my mother. They asked how we were progressing. I explained everything and "just how it all happened." My mother said she thought we had done splendidly. Mr. Keefer said: "It did beat the d l." I then called him one side and began negotiations for a hundred-dollar loan.
So saying I began to read off the names of people living in the old Galetown school-district, such as Mrs. M. Keefer, Mrs. John Bartlett, Mrs. Curt Dirlam, Mrs. R. E. Betts, Mrs. Alfred Hutchinson, Mrs. James Drown, Mrs. John Lefever, Mrs. Dave Ramsey, Mrs. Sidney Tuck, Mrs. Calif Luce, Mrs. Samuel Chapin, Mrs. "Great Scott! Do all those people live in this town?" "Why not?" I asked. "Why not?
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