My knowledge of puddling, heating and rolling, occasionally working in a sheet mill similar to a tin mill, prepared me for this new work.

In tin making a piece of wrought iron is rolled thin and then covered with a thinner coating of pure tin.

After this is done the plate remains soiled and discolored, and the next process is to remove the stain and polish the tin until it shines like silver.
To have a job and eat pie again made me happy.

Our union contained several hundred members, so I had a lot of prospective friends to get acquainted with.

I was then nearly twenty-one and a pretty good mixer; I liked men and enjoyed mingling with them and learning all I could from what they told me.