They both quit about the same time. A couple
of years after that, when they was both about
twenty-five or six years old, they run acrost each
other accidental in New York one autumn.
The doctor, he was there figgering on going to
work at something or other, but they was so many
things to do he was finding it hard to make a choice.
His father was dead by that time, and looking fur
a job in New York, the way he had been doing it,
was awful expensive, and he was running short of
money. His father had let him spend so much
whilst he was alive he was very disappointed to
find out he couldn't keep on forever looking fur work
that-a-way.
So Colonel Tom says why not come down home
into Tennessee with him fur a while, and they will
both try and figger out what he orter go to work at.
It was the fall of the year, and they was purty good
hunting around there where Colonel Tom lived,
and Dave hadn't never been South any, and so he
goes. He figgers he better take a good, long vaca-
tion, anyhow. Fur if he goes to work that winter
or the next spring, and ties up with some job that
keeps him in an office, there may be months and
months pass by before he has another chance at
a vacation. That is the worst part of a job--I
found that out myself--you never can tell when
you are going to get shut of it, once you are fool
enough to start in.
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