doing but the fact is I am [Page Two] getting played out, and the fashion is here that when a father gets old and unable to work the[y] have no further use for him I have succeeded in getting a few weeks work lately the first I have done in twelve months as I got a bad sprained ancle (11st June was a year down in New Orlains and was a number of weeks in hospital there, and had to go on crutches for three months the foot still remains weak I believe it will never get well again [Page Three] I went down there two years ago and remained ther eighteen months. went down there to work for a contractor expecting to return home in three months but the job was somewhat of a falure, and I got completely