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And in summer the pump had to be primed which was always a problem.
After the roofing fiasco, my job was to pick up scrap-wood around the job site, carry it down near the river and burn it in a fire. Nice simple work. The weather was warm and I kept a fire going all day. I brought a fishing pole and kept a line in the river but didn't catch anything. At the end of three days about four o'clock on Friday - I was given a real job, to saw a board in half and I was out of the dog house.
The next week Miscellaneous took me to the town of McHenry to a store front on a very busy Main Street with scaffolding up the front and a remodel inside. I would be working with one other guy a young married carpenter.
We first worked on the scaffold and there were a lot of women walking down below. We had to face the building's concrete front with wood that had to be nailed into the stone-hard cement. The carpenter had a tool for that which involved a twenty-two calibre cartridge shell, the explosion of which drove the nail into the stone while women walked down below.
Inside the store front I helped wood frame the interior walls, did sawing, nailing, and then we sheet rocked it and I did a pretty good job I only having to remove one piece and replace it. All of which took us into August.
At some point I made two hundred dollars because I bought a Model T Ford for $180 bucks. But from which job I'm not sure.
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