Andy Grant's Pluck

nt home. He hoped to go up to his room without

h a smile, "did you carry of

" answered Con

ine Burns d

N

win the

y Gr

arter wa

ow?" he e

a li

e beat

till we got halfway back, when I got a terrible pain in my arm. I must have strained it, I thi

ride extended to his family and all connected with him, and h

rant boy learn t

r. Gale that he lea

hink he is e

sn't. I am mile

ave out. You had better speak to your mo

d any boy beat me than that upstart, Andy Grant. He will

n make up to you. Here a

d the bills. "It was lucky I thought about the strain," he said to himse

ounts for his defeat, Andy?"

n't t

ained the muscl

smi

any better, I have no obje

im ten dollars, so he w

ny of the boys to

," said Andy. "If I had lost, my fa

s way to the post offi

pleasant face, and his manner was genial. He had a str

ave you recovered from your

to rowing, and felt

is very much morti

is. He felt su

ne so if you had rema

e strained the muscles of his a

uld acknowledge that he was fairly bea

s,

he hotel. I shall be gl

t. He was drawn to the young man, and felt

use, and on arriving at the hotel f

," said the young man.

n the hotel, and he had furnished it in the most comfortable and attractive manner. Pi

ant room!" ex

e myself comfortable. Wha

to live in the country. Are y

tors recommended me to absent myself for a time from the exc

nterfere with

Gale

years since I was employed in an insurance office in the city. The death of a

in good he

ous temperament, and am

self. You have been fo

dem

or two

go bac

sses, and can no longer afford to send

a disappoin

ing to go to colle

our father i

es

to assist him

all try to get some business situatio

e a good Latin an

the languages, and sto

me progress in Latin and commenced Greek, when my father's failure obliged me to seek employme

make up deficiencies

thinking of, if I can ge

can find a classica

e would be willing t

" asked And

swered this young

asked Andy, with

m school, and I am sure you w

am only

ind me a very advanced pupil. I had read one book in Caesar when I was compelled to leave schoo

I am compete

order to avoid village gossip, it will be well to pass yourself off as m

y glad to serve

nine and remain with me till twe

f, Mr. Gale. I am almost

ire, Andy. Suppose I pay you si

ceptable, but I am afraid

ars a week, and we will spend the afternoon together also. I will se

m better, and the prospect of earning nine do