A Struggle for a Fortune
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150740039
Paperback|9781150740039
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VL Nat Sees a Friend. -ripHERE'S just this much about it," said Nat, when Mr. Nickerson had been laid away in a little grove of evergreens behind the barn, and the neighbors had gone home one after the other and the family had returned to the house, "it is going to be something of a job for me to go down there and get that money. In the first place there is Jonas, who will be furious when he finds that I have run away from home, especially if he thinks I am going to make something by it. He will follow me night and day, and I can't make a move of any sort without he will see it. Then he will bring me home and won't I ketch it, though?" This bothered Nat more than any thing else. He wanted some little time to think seriously about the way to beat Jonas at bis own game, and went into tbe barn, drew a milk-stool to the tbresbold so that be could see anybody that approached him from the house and sat down to go over the points again. "I have got to have help," thought Nat, "and there is only one boy in the settlement that I can trust; and when it comes to that, I can't trust him, either. He is a lazy, good-for-nothing fellow, and worse than all, I dare not tell him what I am looking after. I must go it alone if I can; but if I find that I can't do it, I must see Peleg Graves about it." Come to look at the matter Nat was in bad straits, and that was a fact. Of course there were plenty of boys he could have got to assist him, but the trouble was he did not know any of them. He and Caleb were much alike in this respect. The families around them were a little better off than they were, nobody liked Jonas on account of his shiftless ways, and his boys, Nat and Caleb, had been brought up to follow very much in his footsteps, and his bad example had a d...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150740039 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150740035 |
| Weight | 0.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 7.44 x 0.10 x 9.69 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
| Publisher | General Books LLC |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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