You certainly need better clothing.

I have some money in bank and it is freely yours." I knew that my Uncle Stanley had put her up to this, and out of sheer curiosity I asked her how much she could let me have.

She named what seemed to me a stupendous sum.

I thanked her, told her I had quite a sufficiency for the time being, slipped into town and pawned my watch; that is, as I made light of it afterward in order to escape the humiliation of borrowing from an uncle whose politics I did not approve, I went with my collateral to an uncle who had no politics at all and got fifty dollars on it! Before the money was gone I had found, through Judge Matthews, congenial work.
There was in Cincinnati but one afternoon newspaper--the Evening Times--owned by Calvin W.Starbuck.He had been a practical printer but was grown very rich.

He received me kindly, said the editorial force was quite full--must always be, on a daily newspaper--"but," he added, "my brother, Alexander Starbuck, who has been running the amusements, wants to go a-fishing in Canada--to be gone a month--and, if you wish, you can during his absence sub for him." It was just to my hand and liking.