He considered himself above both of these classes.

He was afraid of neither the devil nor the leader of society.
When he had a dollar in his pocket his satisfaction with existence was the greatest thing in the world.

So, eventually, he felt obliged to work.

His father died and his mother's years were divided up into periods of thirty days.
He became a truck driver.

He was given the charge of a painstaking pair of horses and a large rattling truck.