walk, I did not want any bank account, because as long as I had brass in my face, silver in my tongue, and a dollar in my pocket, I could start and go around the world with the dollar, and have hundreds of dollars when I should reach the end of my journey.

The boys thought for sure that I was in a fix; but I knew a trick that none of them were up to, and have never told any one about it until now.

I knew that the law of the land was that no felon would be taken in the army; so I laid the facts of my case before the provost-marshal, gave him the proofs that I had served two terms in State prison, and got my discharge. This made me more popular than ever, for they thought that I "stood in " with the provost, and I got more work to do than the others, and made pay first rate.

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After the war was over, I worked for a wholesale grocery and cheese-house, selling to the city trade. I was still in the fire department. After about three years the firm took in a new partner who had been a whisky-distiller, and I now had to sell whisky in addition to the other goods.

And here is where the devil got in his work. He got hold of me again through the whisky. I worked for these men about two years; then the devil put it in my heart to run away with all the money I could lay hands on. As I was salesman and collector, I had the handling of all the money from the city trade. I had used my collections, and knew I could not pay it back; so I sold my home, collected all that was standing out, and left my wife and went back to Troy-to the very place that was the most hateful to me. I had to go to this hateful place, because Satan had got me again through the whisky.

O, no one but Satan could these things which I tell of!

have made me do

After I had been

But the police were

in Troy about three weeks, I had dropped almost all the money I had. Then I sent to my wife's brother to send on my wife, and not let the police "get on " to it. not asleep; they were watching for just such a move, and when my wife left, a letter followed her. When she stopped in Troy, the letter also stopped.

I took my wife to my cousin's, who was a

detective, and while I was at supper with my sisters and my aunt, my cousin called me out and asked me what I had been doing in Cleveland. I said I had done nothing. He then showed me a hand-bill offering a reward for me; and I had to spend the night and two days in jail, when the officers came on and took me back to Cleveland.

It will do no one any good to tell how I got out of this scrape. Suffice it to say, that I had one member of the firm on the hip, as we call it, and I told him if he prosecuted I would squeal on him; and so, after a time, I was let out on bail, myself being the bail.

I worked it smart again, and got into the fire department, and made lots of money out of it; but I won't tell how I made it, because it will do no good, and it might lead others to do the I lived off from it a whole summer, and it took lots of money to keep me; but they "tumbled to " it at last, and I was "done up' in the department. They could do nothing to me, however, in the line of punishment,

same.

I now went to the oil-region to take charge of oil-wells, which I did for two weeks; then I