That Day in the Trench My father had ~*set up^1 the job,not knowing how incompetent Ⅰ was

I was 16 that hot June in Lafayette, La. My weight was 105 pounds, and my ruddy^2, broad-chested father wanted me to have a summer job. He talked to a friend of his , a building contractor, who hired me as a carpenter's helper for 75 cents an hour.