Born to Good Luck, or The Boy Who Succeeded

Excerpt: '“See here, Dick Armstrong; when you’ve taken that water into the house, I want you to clean these. Do you understand? The speaker, a sallow-complexioned, overgrown boy of seventeen, threw a pair of mud-bespattered boots at the feet of a sun-burned, healthy-looking lad about a year his junior, while a grin of satisfied malice wrinkled his not over-pleasant features as he thrust his hands ...