Joe's Luck; Or, Always Wide Awake
o start. Already a considerable amount of freight was lying on
" inquired a stout man with a red
ce of the Califor
es
lowest price
ollars for t
he death-blow to his hopes. He had but fifty dollars, or thereab
now and the rest as soon as I can
o business
if I lived," said Joe. "Perha
you are or not," sai
o business
fice not a litt
red dollars Aunt Susan lef
would pay his passage by steamer. He had mentioned working his passage in a sailing-vessel round the Horn. Joe did not li
ing vehicles, and thinking what a lively place New York was, and how different life was in the metropolis from what it had been to him in the quiet country t
thought Joe, "I should be willing to wo
city counting-room, or store, at starvation wages, with, at best, a very remote prospect of advancement and increased risk of falling a prey to temptation in some of the many forms which it assumes in a populous
e went into the public
paper to read. There
recent discoveries th
id
ark-complexioned man, dressed in rather a flashy manner. When
n the city, my young friend?" h
oe, rather glad to hav
rived this
from what part of t
ville, Ne
e place. It is qui
said Joe. "It's pretty quie
e to the city to
o go to C
to the gold
ever been
friends go there. When
e," Joe replied frankly. "I
y n
money enough to
some money,
I need that a hundred dollars i
st friendly manner. "I am aware that the ordinary charge for a steera
old the agent I would agree to pay the other, half as soon as
the world. Now, I happen to be personally acquainted with him. I am sure he would do me
money to a stranger didn't strike him favorably. Not that he had any d
you to the offi
stranger. "I'll tell you what-you needn't hand me the money, provided yo
l, and be very t
id the stranger benevolently. "I'll see abo
om. How wil
get the ticket for you. Be s
e," said Joe
say a word to any one of what I am going to do for you, or I mig
sir. I wil
next day the stranger
lready aw
ceeded?" aske
ranger
ness. For reasons which I have already mentioned
right
y, and led the
e stranger; "but finally he yielded, out of old fri
A STEAMSH
BE
to One Ste
R
TO SAN
ER CO
name of the agent. Joe pa
bliged to you," h
id the stranger, pocke
ve you, but I am to mee
stairs, and l