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44 there some ten months. I liked the family very much, but again the old desire for traveling came over me, and I started for Cincinnati, and there engaged with a private family. Having been so long away from Cincinnati, the climate did not agree with me, and I was taken sick, when the doctor ordered me South. I started again from Cincinnati to Louisville on the old Ben Franklin, which was said to go so fast, gentlemen had to tie their hats on, and the ladies pin their bonnets to their heads. However, she landed me safe in Louisville, where I took passage on the Great Western for New Orleans.

There was a tremendous crowd going down; among them there were a Mr. and Mrs. A. The lady had been accustomed to have her hair dressed while South, but on her going East she could not get it done. While on board, I dressed her hair for her all the way down. She asked me why I did not go South and dress hair. I told her I feared there were too many hair-dressers there, and I might not be able to dress hair as well as they did, though I had learned the art in Paris. She said there was no one there could dress hair any better than I could, which was very encouraging to me. She was going to the St. Charles, and I went with her; she allowed me so much a month, and to make what I could when she did not need me. I made that season two hundred dollars. Having been so long without money, I fancied myself rich. I staid in New Orleans till late in the season, and then went to Drennon's Lick, a watering-place in Kentucky, which at that time was attended by all the fashionables of Cincinnati, Louisville, Lexington, Ky., and Madison, Ind. We had a