My purse contained thirty-five cents only and I slept in an unoccupied out house without supper.

I bought crackers and dried beef for ten cents in the morning and made my first meal since the day before, felt pretty low-spirited.

I then went to Vivian's smelting furnace where they bought lead ore, smelted it, and run it into pigs of about 70 pounds each.

He said he had a job for me if I could do it.

The furnace was propelled by water and they had a small buzz saw for cutting four-foot wood into blocks about a foot long.