Sam's Chance And How He Improved It

er Sam inquired, "

a walk?" sugges

go to the

to go, but I ca

dollars a we

dging and washing. So will you, too. I a

if a fellow can't have a

in going a day or two wit

n't ha

with. Then our meals will cost us as much as forty or fifty cents a day, say th

much," Sam

ld thin

I am going to g

can't if you go

I was a newsboy, and I didn

idn't have a re

sometimes I only

u're so old now you ought to be conside

ore than five dol

g by blacking boots or selling papers, I shouldn't expect

asked Sam, becoming interest

ver a month. I was

I," sa

ace and couldn't. Finally, I bought some papers and earned a little money selling them. It was better than nothing; but all the while I was hoping to get a place. One day, as I was passing the store where I am now, I saw some boys round the door. I asked the

ou five dollars

e dollars the first

live on that

had

the room you ha

cents a day, or about a dollar and a quarter a week. Out of the rest I bought my dinners and clothes. So I got along ti

ll get six doll

has promised to put me in

ong time to w

ter all, time goes fast. Next ye

think

ell. I've got some money

aimed Sam, prick

es

w m

ty do

ed Sam. "I'd feel rich if

y sm

ich, but I am g

ving up money

week less rent on account of your coming

can

lf for meals. I always have, and I can do

ve got a healthy appetite, and my stomach

an you, but if I am ever to be worth anyt

er smoke?"

ldn't if it didn'

t? It's

growing, and I don't believe it

aid Sam. "It warms a fel

ow, and you'll find plenty of

don't go to the theater

cheap article for three cents, which he l

s about Sam's age, but much more thoughtful and sedate. He had begun to think of the future, and to provide for it. This is always an encouraging sign, and an augury of success. Sam ha

ur or more the boys w

g to bed, Hen

t y

you goin

y a l

n astonishment. "Who's go

ll," said Henry

know-nothing! What ar

, I'm going to

d a slate and pencil. He opened the arithmetic at inte

away over ther

ast October. I don't get on very fas

hen you come to a

some sums I have tried

a lot of pati

always feel paid when I ge

every night. I couldn't do it

her than you think

in'." His roommate handed him the boo

repaid it at the end of two years, five months

do that?"

; it isn't

ld do it; it

u had gone over the earlie

e use of i

eed to understand interest. I shouldn't expect to be promoted if I didn't know

much as you. What

every evening. Here

was more than half written through. He had evidently tak

quite im

the teacher I went to up

rite, can'

I haven't t

now how to read, and

Sam; "but there's

ell asleep. His roommate devoted an hour to arithmetic, and wrote