From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience

letter to Sam Price, telling his friend of his adventures since leaving home, and ask

certainly a fine place to go to, and maybe I'll try it myself some day. Country life is awful slo

in that city three days before he gave up the search. He claims that the cow belonged to him-that he took it for board and clothing for you, and he also sticks

not once but several times, and shook

he thought. "Wish I could catch the person who really did do it. M

lars saved, of which amount he was reasonably proud.

said one of the proprietors to him. "After Sat

new bosse

their own that they can use. Only

hero looked around in his spare hours for another position,

"Still, I don't feel quite so green as when I first reached New Y

so hard that he did not go out until after noon. Then he visited a fashionable wholesale jewelry establishment.

light checked suit, and very light gloves. He spoke

siness, sir?" as

ung gentleman, "that you adve

rk, ye

e can agree upon terms, I should be-

he jeweler raised h

to learn that all my connection

fying. But you mentioned terms.

o, a year. Then, I should wish to make certai

o

ink it injures the health. But I think I could m

s

lf, both in winter and summer. I always go to the theater m

what

an five in the afternoon. Excessive

s that

r six weeks off in the summer, so that I can visit the spring

d be, to you," ans

hink

't satisfy

That is

hours, and who doesn't set quite such a high figure on his ser

weler, he turned on his heel and left in utter disgust.

Nat. "I wonder if anybody wil

young man?" asked the je

king for

as high as those of t

to work hard and I am n

u are no

Do I look

like a cou

ing for Trumbull & Davison, the paper dealers. But they ha

look bright and honest. But I need someb

't any place th

l you what I might do. Do yo

s,

out a g

was brought u

New Jersey. I might try you there, at

at's fa

omething to do in the city," sa

ou anything," and th

s and offices. But everywhere he received the same answer-that

Jersey," he thought, on his way to his boarding house. "B

tramped from Forty-second Street clear down to the Battery several times. T

oned. "Unless I do better I'll have to

Dick, but the effort was not a success. By noon he had earne

said Dick, frankly. "What you want to do i

s are mighty scar

n distribute bills, and on another occasion he carried out packages for a florist, and the two jobs brou

ht, as he sat in his little room, on the edge of the bed. He had been coun

" he continued, "and that will leave me sixty-five cents.

one store the proprietor was unusually harsh to him, and h

ed. "If I can't get something to do I can't stay here, for

ediately after the meal he went to his little room. Then, of

"Goodness knows I am short enough of f

l pinned fast, and he brought it f

im to put a five-dollar

n, and looked inside. It contained a slip

ulated. "I don't suppose it's less than a five

gasp he sank back on the only chair which the little bedroom c

was one for a