CHAPTER XX.
The jute mills failed of its agreement to increase my pay to a dollar and a quarter a day, and I, a free-born American boy whose direct ancestors had fought in all the wars from the old pre-Revolutionary Indian wars down, exercised my sovereign right of free contract by quitting the job.
I was still resolved to settle down, and I looked about me.

One thing was clear.

Unskilled labour didn't pay.

I must learn a trade, and I decided on electricity.

The need for electricians was constantly growing.