"About five minutes before you saw me putting out the fire. I came down the river on the big tow boat."
"Where's your baggage?"
"On my back. I have no other clothes. I'll buy some when I earn some money."
"Where have you been since the surrender?"
"Making my way West."
"How?"
"On foot to Wheeling. Then on the tow boat."
"What fare did they make you pay?"
"None. I worked my way as a stoker—fireman they call it out here."
"No wages? Just passage and grub?"