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wanted. I found by direction of our host a drug store on Broadway across from the City Hall Park, told the man in charge what I wanted, and he presently began to talk to me, man fashion. Had I just landed? Had I just landed? Where was I from? What was my business? And I answered him, but thought the while, This may be the way we lose our teeth. I must see what he charges. "How much, sir?" I said. And he answered: "Not a cent. Glad to do it. Come in again and let me know how you are getting along if you stay in New York." This was my first lesson: the first thing I bought in this new world I must not pay for.

Our destination was Philadelphia. I could not tell you why that day, but can now if there were time and space beyond this. The light lay on that city, and there we must go. We started after two days by the way of South Amboy and the Delaware, the cheapest route. It was a lovely mid May morning as we went down the river. The orchards were in full bloom. It was the most beautiful land I had ever laid my eyes on! Our host in New York had told us of a tavern kept also by a Yorkshireman, and we went there.

I must lose no time finding work, for our

funds were low. It was the first time in my life I must seek work and hurt my pride; but I was spared the pang, for the work sought me. I saw an advertisement in the Ledger,

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Wanted, a blacksmith. Apply to No. 5 Commerce Street," and there I hastened. The forge was in the country, seven miles away, and I must go out there by the old York road the next morning. It was one of those burning days that come in mid May. I was just clear of the city, plodding along, when a gentleman passed me rather swiftly in a carriage and pair, halted presently, and when I came into line with him asked me where I was bound. "A place called Shoemaker town, sir,” I answered. And then he said: "I am going that way. Get in and have a ride this hot day." I was rising twenty-seven. It was the first time in my life any gentleman had asked me to come in and ride with him. He also wanted to know about my whence and whither. I told him of my hopes, but not my fears. He told me I was sure to prosper, with much besides, clasped my hand when we parted in good, frank fashion, sorry he could not take me to the forge a mile away,- and I never saw him again.

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One more memory remains of our first experience among the greedy and grasping folk over here who would have my teeth. When I left the city, my good helpmeet said she must find work also with her needle, and help earn the money for our new home when we got one. There was an intelligence office free for emigrants near the tavern on Front Street near Market in the care of a Mr. Thomason, a Presbyterian clergyman, whose health had given way in New Orleans, and he said, "My wife wants some sewing done, so you will come to our house." So my dear wife went there and worked some days, but then was taken down with a fever she had no doubt caught on the ship. It was of a bad type. There were, I think, four children in the home. There would be peril if she was kept there, and the right thing to do would be to send their charge to the hospital. I still think this never entered into their minds. Mrs. Thomason isolated her in a sweet, bright room in the house, called in their own doctor, took care of her with no nurse to help, and, when I went to the city at the week's end, they said I must be their guest, and come there until my wife was well able to join me, and we could start our home in good fashion.

And when we were ready to go we said: "We can never cease to be your debtors for this care and kindness, but you have been at a serious expense also. This we must repay." I was in good work at good wages. We would lose no time. We could help. For this we pleaded, but they would not hear us for a moment. Not a penny should we pay them: much more they said. And then the dear old man laid his hands on us and gave us his sweet benediction. The measure was full. This was

the answer to the cousin's caution touching the greedy and selfish Americans.

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My work in the forge for almost nine years was making claw-hammers, at a stated price per dozen. This was a new craft. I had never made a claw-hammer until then in my life; but in the twelve years' training I had got what we call a good ready, and piece work puts a man on his mettle. Old veterans in the antislavery crusade may still remember an illustration Mr. Garrison was rather fond of using in his speeches touching the sound of the hammer in the forge when you were working by the day or the job" by the day—by the da-ay-by the da-a-ay," the one hammer said, and the other, "by the job, job, job." So you need not ask on what terms each man was working.

We were working by the job, and I soon caught the fine contagion. So this was the result: I earned double the wages in the first month that I was paid as foreman in the old forge in Ilkley. But this is also true, that I worked, I may venture to say, twice as hard

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