Arriving at Elmore, Ohio, stranded--Receiving eight dollars on a Patent right sale--Dunned in advance by the landlord--Changing hotels--My visit to Fremont--Meeting Mr. Keefer and borrowing money--Our visit to Findlay--A big deal--Losing money in wheat--Followed by officers with a writ of replevin--Outwitting them--A four-mile chase--Hiding our rig in a cellar. CHAPTER XVII. Visiting my family at Elmore--How we fooled a detective--A friend in need--Arriving at Swanton, Ohio, broke--How I made a raise--Disguising my horse with a coat of paint--Captured at Toledo--Selling my horse--Arrived home broke. CHAPTER XVIII. Mr. Keefer called from home--My mother refuses me a loan--Peddling furniture polish on foot--Having my fortune told--My trip through Michigan--Arrested for selling without license--"It never rains but it pours"--Collapsed--A good moral--Making a raise. CHAPTER XIX. My co-partnership with a Clairvoyant doctor--Our lively trip from Ypsilanti to Pontiac, Michigan--Poor success--The doctor and his Irish patient--My prescription for the deaf woman--Collapsed, and in debt for board. CHAPTER XX. Engaged to manage the hotel--The doctor my star boarder--Discharging all the help--Hiring them over again--The doctor as table waiter--The landlady and the doctor collide--The arrival of two hus'lers--How I managed them--The landlady goes visiting--I re-modeled the house--My chambermaid elopes--Hiring a Dutchman to take her place--Dutchy in disguise--I fooled the doctor--Dutchy and the Irish shoemaker. CHAPTER XXI. The doctor swindled--How we got even--Diamond cut diamond--The doctor peddling stove-pipe brackets--His first customer--His mishap and demoralized condition--The doctor and myself invited to a country dance--He the center of attraction--The doctor in love with a cross-eyed girl--Engaged to take her home--His plan frustrated--He gets even with me--We conclude to diet him--The landlady returns--Does not know the house. CHAPTER XXII. Out of a position--Moved to Ann Arbor--How I made a raise--A return to furniture polish--Selling experience--Hauling coke--My summer clothes in a snow-storm--A gloomy Christmas--An attack of bilious fever--Establishing an enforced credit--The photograph I sent my mother--Engaged as an auctioneer at Toledo, Ohio--My first sale. CHAPTER XXIII. A successful auctioneer--Playing a double role--Illustrating an auction sale. CHAPTER XXIV. My employer called home--I continue to hus'le--An auctioneering co-partnership--Still in a double role--A neat, tidy, quiet boarding-house--We move to a hotel--A practical joke--Auctioneering for merchants--Making a political speech--Getting mixed. CHAPTER XXV.