I continue to sell for merchants--Well prepared for winter--Trading a shot-gun for a horse and wagon--Auctioneering for myself--Mr. Keefer needing help--How I responded--Turning my horse out to pasture--Engaged to sell on commission--How I succeeded--Out of a job--Busted--How I made a raise--A return to the Incomprehensible--Peddling with a horse and wagon--Meeting an old friend--Misery likes company--We hus'le together--Performing a surgical operation--A pugilistic encounter--Our Wild-west stories--Broke again--A hard customer--Another raise. CHAPTER XXVI. Helping a tramp--We dissolve partnership--My auction sale for the farmer--How I settled with him--I resume the auction business for myself--My horse trade--I start for Michigan. CHAPTER XXVII. Auctioneering at the Michigan State Fair--Three days' co-partnership with a showman--My partner's family on exhibition--Our success--Traveling northward--Business increases--Frequent trades in horses and wagons--The possessor of a fine turn-out--Mr. Keefer again asks assistance--How I responded--Traveling with an ox-team and cart--A great attraction--Sold out--Traveling by rail--My return to Ohio--Meeting the clairvoyant doctor--How I fooled him--Quail, twelve dollars a dozen--The doctor loses his appetite. CHAPTER XXVIII. A co-partnership formed in the auction business--How it ended--A new friend--His generosity--Exhibiting a talking machine--It failed to talk--How I entertained the audience--In the role of a Phrenologist. CHAPTER XXIX. In the auction business again--A new conveyance for street sales--My trip through the lumber regions--A successful summer campaign--A winter's trip through the south--My return to Grand Rapids, Mich.--A trip to Lake Superior--Selling needles as a side issue--How I did it--State license demanded by an officer--How I turned the tables on him--Buying out a country store--A great sale of paper-cambric dress patterns--A compromise with the buyers--My return to Chicago--Flush and flying high. CHAPTER XXX. Buying out a large stock of merchandise--On the road again--Six weeks in each town--Muddy roads and poor trade--Closing out at auction--Saved my credit but collapsed--Peddling polish and jewelry--Wholesaling jewelry--Fifty dollars and lots of experience my stock in trade--Tall "hus'ling" and great success--An offer from a wholesale jewelry firm--Declined with thanks--Hus'ling again--Great success. CHAPTER XXXI. Robbed of a trunk of jewelry--Only a small stock left--A terrible calamity--Collapsed--An empty sample-case my sole possession--Peddling polish again--Making a raise--Unintentional generosity breaks me up--Meeting an old partner--The wholesaler supplies me with jewelry--Hus'ling again with great success--Making six hundred dollars in one day--My health fails me--I return to Ohio--A physician gives me but two years to live--How I fooled him. CHAPTER XXXII.