Sam's Chance And How He Improved It

the money he offered you!" said

n't find the ring. I

willing to give it to

f it; but I didn't

me, Henry. You wouldn

ot," said He

ght of it. "It beats the restaurant all hollow. We'd have had to pay a dolla

can't expect to live

d to wash your hands in. I was just goin' to drink mine when I saw Mr. Chester wa

ety, Sam. I've no doubt there are a good many

just like Mr. Chester," s

ety, Sam. I've no doubt there are a good many

just like Mr. Chester," s

to be rich, you mu

an't

up part of these t

art of i

out five

along till the

I'll go with you to the savings-bank, and you can put it in

d, and looke

how much I need to carry me

owe me, and I'll deposit a p

of the Mercantile Library Building. It is kept open every day in the week from 10 A. M. till 8 P. M., thus affording better accommodatio

, and handed it with his bankbook to the receiving cle

ok, which was returned to h

turned

all?" a

that i

to draw out money, wha

h you wanted to draw. He would give you a pap

have you got h

answered his companion,

ice as much as I

ink you had better

me next week," sai

if I am sick I know I shan't have to suffer, for a time at least. I c

ish I had thirt

hile if you'll do as I do-

. "I'd like to have something t

s carrying it out. As it turned out, not a dollar of the reward which he had b

he office, he met a young man with

you, Sam?

," answ

the worl

I've just ma

w m

-five d

bad. How did

in Wall Street, and got

ou got

t of

ou going to

ses me to put it i

Henry

y that room

vice, and d

Would the

t would; but what

ou interest,

n twenty-five dollars would only come to a dolla

do, then?" asked Sam. "Is t

I were you. I'd buy part of a

ake money

h of a ticket; that wo

rize is a hundred

Sam's breath to thin

that, could I?" h

of it; that would be t

exclaimed Sam, in excitement.

other prizes a great

re to draw someth

st as good a ch

any tickets in

a fifth of a ti

ey sell? 'em

panion

he said. "It must be better than pu

et a big prize the first time, to b

n that somebody would win the prize, and that his chance was as good as anybody. It is always unlucky for a boy or young man when he yields for the first time to the fatal fascination of the lottery. He may fail time after time, but contin

ent round to the lottery office, a

lth. If he could only win that twenty thousand dollars, how rich he would be! How

rize," he thought. "Maybe I'll buy out some big business, a

s counting chickens that were

ome odd cents. Had he followed Henry's advice, a part of this would have been deposited in the bank; but Sam's dreams of wealth l