"It's up to you now," I said, "to make a damned fine American."
It wasn't more than two months later that Dan came to me to ask my opinion on a request of Sweeney's. It looked a bit off color and I said so.
"You can't do it, Dan," I said.
"It manes throuble," he said.
"Let it come. We're back of you with both feet."
Dan followed my advice and the trouble came. He was fired from his job as foreman under Sweeney.
But you can't keep down as good a foreman as Dan was and he had another job within a week.
A few months later I had another job myself. I was made foreman with my own firm at a wage of two dollars and a half a day. When I went back and announced this to Ruth, she cried a little. Truly our cup seemed full and running over.