Present Condition

"I get along tolerably now for an old man. The welfare gives me a little

help. But I have to pay five dollars for these two rooms every month.

What's more, I got to eat, and I got to have somethin' to wear.

Washington won't allow me nothin' for my army service. They say I wasn't

regular. I gets eight dollars from the Welfare.

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