Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: minding, calling me "a coward and a slave." I told him "that nothing he could call me and nothing at all would make me do different from what my men told me to do, and that I was not afraid of him." Once he told me there was a man far down South, a rich man, owning many thousand head of cattle, who wanted just such a boy as I. Another time he told me if we were in San Francisco he could get me a place at the race-courses as jockey, riding races, where I could make lots of money and wear beautiful clothes, all silk and satin, showing me a colored print of a boy dressed in shiny, pink knee-breeches, green blouse with pink sleeves and green cap, looking very pretty on a lean horse. After that I do not remember him any more. August. Yesterday I earned very fair wages and had entertainment in the bargain. I went again to that colony of small dwellings where the day before I had worked. The two places next to that one were unoccupied, the following one I wanted to pass by because there were signs of disorder about it which I did not like, but I changed my mind, went up to the door and rang the bell. A very young and pretty but most slovenly dressed—I should say half- dressed woman or girl came to the door and I asked her if the folks wanted somebody to put the little front- yard in shape. She laughed, showing very fine, white and even teeth and called, "Joe! Joe! Here is a man who wants to know if the folks want the garden fixed. You must be the folks, so you better show up." Someone from some rear room called back, "What is it dearie?" A door was opened and a very young man, not much older than the girl, appeared and stumbling and falling over some unpacked drawers and boxes and different other things covering the whole floor of the entrance-hallway, plunged int...