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 made a raise. CHAPTER XVI.