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‘cause I needs it bad to live on. I used. to nurse de white roiks children when I was a little boy. I made a better nurse dan most ~ir1s, so jest kept on at it till I was old enough to be a field hand.

	“I had a hard time till de war broke out. Soon as I got a chance, I run off and vient to de army. I served two years and six months. I come out in 1866. ‘Course I was in de hospital till ‘66. I don‘t know how long I was in der wounded. But I do know when I €:ot better, I was such a good nurse de doctors kept me in de government hosoital to help nurse dem other soldiers and dere sure

‘nough was a heap of ‘err up dere. Dat was in Madison, Wisconsin. after deytirned me loose from de hos~ital, I went to work in a bar~ ber shop up dere. I worked in it one year to learn de trade. After I learned de barber trade I don‘t remember how much longer I stayed dere. I left dere and went to Dodgeville, Wisconsin and opened a barber sho of my own and run it about two or three years. Den I went to Dubuque, Iowa, and stayed about one year and barbered in a hotel dere.

	“1 come to St . Louis in 1876 and started being a roust~ a— bout and firing on boats. I changed from dat after awhile and. went to driving private carriages and done glass cleaning.