Cholly Breedlove was abandoned when he was only four days old. His great Aunt Jimmy saw his mother place a bundle on a heap near the railroad and rescued him. His mother left and was never seen again so Cholly was raised by the old woman. His great Aunt named him for her dead brother, Charles, and she told Cholly that his real father's name was Samson Fuller. Samson Fuller had run away to Macon a long time ago. As Cholly grew up he knew that he was lucky to have been saved but there were times when he wished that the old woman wasn't his whole world.
When Cholly was old enough, he got a job at Tyson's Feed and Grain Store and he was befriended by the drayman there, an old man named.....
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