Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck

Larkin, as Luke entered the little sit

ay home, who asked m

man?" asked his m

answer

singular. Wha

ve the neighborhood at once, and co

t contains anyt

d their stocks and bonds. I was at the bank one day, an

at all, Luke. You say y

met him

se, he does n

he asked

be valuable propert

se to trust it to. Besides, a country boy wouldn'

. I suppose the t

s his name is Roland Reed-wish

it up in my

at will be

for your trouble when he

t, the bank-note he had thrust in as soon as received. "Why, it's a ten-dol

id his mother, brighteni

r. You will fin

this money

r you are going to t

er and son retired to rest in a cheerful frame

that I should like to have you buy a Waterbury watch out of this money.

chiefly because it was to be a prize given to the best skater. All the boy

you to have a

w about the box or the money. If it were known that we had so mu

ope it won't be long before

the prize watch ostentatiously displayed on the outside of his vest. He smiled complacent

keeps good time,

so far. I think it will keep a

unate to have

gold watch when I am eighte

ll have any watch at a

a poor boy. It does

ime is likely to be of as much import

but a poor boy isn't ex

ed. Luke walked on with a

nt and self-satisfied as Randolph?" he though

orning,

eton. Her mother was a widow in easy circumstances, who had removed from Chicago three years before, and occupied a handsome cottage nearly oppos

nce," said Luke, wit

ou lost the ra

doesn't

ery selfish bo

e the race?

f it hadn't been for Tom Harper

hink

hat could have induced

very foolish, howeve

Randolph," said Fl

don't think Randolph would st

ke, but Randolph

he was trying fo

er offered him te

than others," remarked Florence, thoughtfully. "The

I don't complain. I may be bet

, Luke," said Fl

iged to you for you

, wa

ay, is my birthday, and I am to have a li

schoolfellows, he had never visited the house. He properly regarded the invitation as

very kind, and I shall have great pleasur

ur friend Randolp

room for both of us," s

him good morning a

Randolph at the dry-go

ng?" asked Randolp

of thread fo

ar to Florence Grant's birthday

," said Luke, enjoying the surprise

" demanded Rand

es

u been i

red Luke, indignantly. "Do you thin

mixed affair," said Randol

nk so, why

t to disappo

of the opinion that the disa