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Although the amount I made was small, it came in a very opportune time, and afforded me much satisfaction, as I argued in my own mind, that if I was able to drive those kind of trades in a small way, while young, I might be able some day to make similar deals on a larger scale. The next day, when I met Mr. Keefer, I explained how I had made ten dollars.
My mother said it showed just how bright I was, to travel six weeks with a man and not know he was a woman. Mr. Keefer said he guessed there was no harm done. The next day I received a letter from an old gentleman living at Bronson, Mich., who had just patented a dropper for a reaping-machine, and wanted me to sell County rights for him, and establish agencies.
My mother said I was a goose for not staying there and working up a nice business, instead of fooling away the territory for a horse. Mr. Keefer said he would rather have the horse than all the territory in the United States. I traded the horse to one of our neighbors for a flock of sheep and sold them for one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Keefer for money, because he shouldn't give me a penny. Of course I could give her no satisfaction. She finally said was going to take me to a jeweler, with whom she had talked, and have me learn the jeweler's trade. I disliked the idea and rebelled against it. She was determined, however, and compelled me to accompany her.
Keefer to one side and explained just "how it all happened" and how the fruit all rotted, and how my relatives and friends helped themselves. He said they ought to be ashamed and it was too bad. I borrowed a few dollars from him for incidental expenses, until I could "strike something." My mother wanted to know what I expected to do, and said I needn't ask Mr.
She claimed there was a living in it, which I admitted, but declared if I kept "hustling" I would accomplish that much anyhow. She gave me to distinctly understand that Mr. Keefer would sign no more notes nor loan me a dollar in money thereafter. Mr. Keefer held a note of fifty dollars against a man, not yet due, which he handed to me that same morning, saying if I could use it I could have it.
That afternoon I called at his house with my model, and as I stepped in, said: "How-do-you-do, Brother Long?" He smiled pleasantly, and extending his hand inquired my name. "Why," said I, "I am a son of your sister Keefer. Johnston is my name. Mr. Keefer is my step-father." "O, I understand. Take a chair; lay off your hat. Aren't you the young man who led in prayer the other evening?"
The way I figured it, I would have at least one hundred dollars my due on settlement. But imagine my surprise, when I received a statement showing a shortage of seventy-five dollars, which Mr. Keefer would be obliged to pay. I was then owing a week's board bill, and had not a cent to my name. After carefully examining Colonel Lippencott's statement, I was satisfied that he was correct.
After receiving my share of the profits, which was about enough to pay my expenses back to Ohio, I decided to go there. On arriving home, my mother said she hoped I was satisfied now that I couldn't make money, and that I was only fooling my time away. She said she had told Mr. Keefer just how that fruit business would end. I took Mr.
Keefer, with a fair future prospect, I took advantage of my good credit in town, and bought clothes, boots, shoes and furnishing goods, and borrowed money occasionally from my friends, who never refused me. Three months from the very day I began learning the alphabet, through the advice and recommendation of Mr. Witmer, I called on Wm.
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