Excerpt from A Narrative of the Early Life, Remarkable Conversion, and Spiritual Labours of James P. Horton: Who Has Been a Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church Upward of Forty Years
Some Other trade, as that did not agree with me. So I left it, and went to learn the house carpen ters and joiner's trade; but the woman of the house did not treat me well, andl left that place and went to learn the trade of shoe-making, in connection with, tanning and currying, with my step-mother's son. With him I lived three years - he treated me ill, and kept me to work on the farm.' While I lived here, I fell into bad company, 'learned to play cards, to curse and swear; and from these wicked.
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