Sam's Chance, and How He Improved It. Jr. Horatio Alger
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| Автор произведения | Jr. Horatio Alger |
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Jr. Horatio Alger
Sam's Chance, and How He Improved It
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664626257
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. — SAM'S NEW CLOTHES.
CHAPTER II. — SAM'S FIRST DAY IN BUSINESS.
CHAPTER III. — SAM FINDS A ROOM.
CHAPTER VII. — TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
CHAPTER VIII. — AN UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE.
CHAPTER IX. — RESTORING THE RING.
CHAPTER X. — SAM'S INVESTMENT.
CHAPTER XI. — HENRY BECOMES A MERCHANT.
CHAPTER XII. — HOW SAM SUCCEEDED.
CHAPTER XIII. — HENRY'S GOOD FORTUNE.
CHAPTER XIV. — THE SAVINGS BANK BOOK.
CHAPTER XV. — SAM IS FOUND OUT.
CHAPTER XVI. — SAM LOSES HIS PLACE.
CHAPTER XVII. — TIM IS UNMASKED.
CHAPTER XVIII. — THE FALL RIVER BOAT.
CHAPTER XIX. — MUTUAL CONFIDENCES.
CHAPTER XX. — TOO LATE FOR THE TRAIN.
CHAPTER XXI. — ARRIVED IN BOSTON.
CHAPTER XXII. — FIRST EXPERIENCES IN BOSTON.
CHAPTER XXIII. — SAM FINDS A ROOMMATE.
CHAPTER XXIV. — AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE.
CHAPTER XXV. — IN PURSUIT OP A PLACE.
CHAPTER XXVI. — ABNER BLODGETT AGAIN.
CHAPTER XXVII. — SAM IS INITIATED INTO A COLLEGE SOCIETY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. — BROWN'S PLAN.
CHAPTER XXX. — HOW IT WAS ARRANGED.
CHAPTER XXXI. — TWO YEARS LATER.
PREFACE.
"Sam's Chance" is a sequel to the "Young Outlaw," and is designed to illustrate the gradual steps by which that young man was induced to give up his bad habits, and deserve that prosperity which he finally attains. The writer confesses to have experienced some embarrassment in writing this story. The story writer always has at command expedients by which the frowns of fortune may be turned into sunshine, and this without violating probability, or, at any rate, possibility; for the careers of many of our most eminent and successful men attest that truth is often-times stranger than fiction. But to cure a boy of radical faults is almost as difficult in fiction as in real life. Whether the influences which led to Sam's reformation were adequate to that result, must be decided by the critical reader. The author may, at any rate, venture to congratulate Sam's friends that he is now more worthy of their interest and regard than in the years when he was known as the "Young Outlaw."
SAM'S CHANCE.
CHAPTER I. — SAM'S NEW CLOTHES.
"If I'm goin' into a office I'll have to buy some new clo'es," thought Sam Barker.
He was a boy of fifteen, who, for three years, had been drifting about the streets of New York, getting his living as he could; now blacking boots, now selling papers, now carrying bundles—"everything by turns, and nothing long." He was not a model boy, as those who have read his early history, in "The Young Outlaw," are aware; but, on the other hand, he was not extremely bad. He liked fun, even if it involved mischief; and he could not be called strictly truthful nor honest. But he would not wantonly injure or