“When I’d come there I said my name was Jones, because ‘twas the easiest one I could think of; there was a butcher right near us that was named Jones, and it popped into my head at the time. Some of ‘em asked me where I was from, and I told ‘em Cincinnati. I didn’t know much about Cincinnati, except that we used to get cars from there, and so I knew something ‘bout the roads that went to it. I managed to get hold of the paper and burn it up without anyone seein’ me. But after it came I didn’t feel so easy as I did before. I stayed there about a month workin’ at the mill and pickin’ up what I could about the country, and then I began to think my chum was gettin’ suspicious of me. He kep’ askin’ me a good many questions about what I’d worked at and where’bouts I had worked, and how I got there from Cincinnati and a lot of questions about the town, and I thought he was altogether too inquisitive, and of course I would have told him so if I had dared. Finally I thought the other fellers was gettin’ suspicious, too, and I thought they kind of watched me and asked a good many questions. So one time right after I got my pay I made up my mind to leave. I didn’t wait to say nothin’ to anyone, but jumped onto a freight train, and went on about fifty miles or so south to a railroad crossin’ and then I jumped off, and took another train east. Along next day I saw a little town where there was another saw mill, so I stopped off and asked for a job. I didn’t have no trouble goin’ to work, so long as I was willin’ to work with the niggers, and I stayed there two or three weeks, same as the other place, and then I thought the boss began to notice me. He asked me a lot of questions about where I come from, and ‘most everything else he could think of. I told him I come from St. Louis, but I didn’t know much more ‘bout that place than I did ‘bout Cincinnati, and I guess he didn’t neither. But as soon as pay-day come I made up my mind I’d better start, so I took the few duds I’d got together and jumped on another train goin’ further yet, and went away. Finally I stopped at a little town that looked rather nice and started out to get a job.