For in Philadelphia I found in
the Danish Consul, Ferdinand Myhlertz, and his dear wife, friends
indeed as in need. The City of Brotherly Love found heart and time
to welcome the wanderer, though at the time it was torn up by the
hottest kind of fight over the question whether or not to disfigure
the beautiful square at Broad and Market streets by putting the
new municipal building there.
When, after two weeks' rest with my friends, they sent me on my way
to an old schoolmate in Jamestown, N.Y., clothed and in my right
mind, I was none the worse for my first lesson in swimming against
the current, and quite sure that next time I should be able to
breast it. Hope springs eternal at twenty-one. I had many a weary
stretch ahead before I was to make port. But with youth and courage
as the equipment, one should win almost any fight.
CHAPTER IV
WORKING AND WANDERING
Winter came quickly up by the northern lakes, but it had no terror
for me. For once I had shelter and enough to eat. It found me
felling trees on Swede Hill, where a considerable settlement of
Scandinavians was growing up.
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