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"What do you think you shall do for a living, Phil Farringford, when you arrive at St. Louis? " asked Mr. Gracewood, as we sat on the hurricane deck of a Missouri River steamer.
"I don't care much what I do, if I can only get into some mechanical business," I replied. "I want to learn a trade. I don't think I'm very vain when I say that I have about half learned one now."