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~1i~ . ‚ then on into Minneapolis ‚ Minn. Many towns and cities I visited on this trip,~I did not know where I was. My Yan-~ kee ‚ companions looked out for me . They taught me the trade of makin~g chairs and other rustic f~urniture~ They taught me 164 ways of making different pieces of furniture. I spent 11 years in Minnesota but during that time I visited the South once every three years, spending several days in the c ounty of my birth . Mother and father farmed all their lives and they often begged me to settle down but the wanderlust had me and for 30 years I traveĎed from place to place. Even while in Minnesota I did not stay in Minneapolis all the time. I visited most every town in the state during the eleven years I stayed there and made hobo trips into most of the adjoining states~

	“The main Yankee who taught me the trade was Joe i~irton. He an~ the gang helped me to get food until I learned the trade well enough so I could make a living working at it. ~
UI have made a lot of money making and selling

rustic furniture, but now I am getting old. I am not able to work as I used too. Not long ago I made a trip from Raie igh to Charleston, S • C . ‚ but the trip wa~ different from the old days. I hitch~hi1ced the entire distance. I rode with white folks • On one leg of the trip of over 200 mIles I rode with a rich young man and his two pals.