I seemed to comprehend the work at once, and needed no instruction.

Often during these two years I have encountered similar curious conditions.

I sold goods in a store and seemed to know the stocks; I worked two weeks in a telegraph office and discovered I knew the code perfectly; I've shod horses for a country blacksmith, wired a house for electric lights and compounded prescriptions in a drug store.

Whatever I have undertaken to do I seem able to accomplish, and so it is hard for me to guess what profession I followed before my memory deserted me." "You did not retain any position for long, it seems," remarked Uncle John.
"No; I was always impatient to move on, always hoping to arrive at some place so familiar that my lost memory would return to me.

The work I have mentioned was nearly all secured during the first year.