But for fear I might forget, I would get them to give me the name on a piece of paper as a kind of recommend.

This would serve as an introduction through which I have always been well received from one landlord to another, and I have always stopped at the best houses, eaten at the first tables, and slept in the best beds.

No man ever asked me whether I was bond or free, black or white, rich or poor; but I always presented a bold front and showed the best side out, which was all the pass I had.

But when I got within about one hundred miles of Jefferson city, where I expected to take a Steamboat passage to St.Louis, I stopped over night at a hotel, where I met with a young white man who was traveling on to Jefferson City on horse back, and was also leading a horse with a saddle and bridle on.
I asked him if he would let me ride the horse which he was leading, as I was going to the same city?
He said that it was a hired horse, that he was paying at the rate of fifty cents per day for it, but if I would pay the same I could ride him.

I accepted the offer and we rode together to the city.