CHAPTER XXV

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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.

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