Bound to Rise

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 25

LOOKING OUT ON THE WORLD




It was not up to evening that Harry had an opportunity to look at his
prize.  It was a convenient book, while probably not costing on a dollar;
but it omits his/her scholastic books and a worn-out copy of "Robinson Crusoe,"
it was the only book that our hero has possessed. His/her father found him/it
difficult enough to buy him the necessary books for use in the school,
and you/he/she could not afford to buy some less necessary.  Then our young hero,
who was found of reading, although rarely able to gratify his/her taste,
expected anxiously with great joy the pleasure to read his new
book.  He didn't know a lot of Benjamin Franklin, but it had a
vague idea that he was a great man.

After his "domestic job" in the evening you/they were done, he sat him from the table
on that you/he/she was burning a solitary you fatten up candle, and it started to read.
His/her mother was stockings of darning, and his/her father had gone the
shop of village on an errand.

Then he started the history and the more he read the most interesting
he found him/it.  Gran as him became later, he was amazed
discovered that Franklin was a poor boy, and you/he/she had to work for a way of living.
He began in the life on his really account, and through industry,
the frugality, the perseverance and a fixed determination to rise in the life,
he also became a separate an in the end and a wise man, nevertheless
its first opportunities were very limited.  It seemed to Harry that
there was a great similarity among his/her his/her own circumstances and
you position in the life and those some great man around who he was
reading, and this surrenders the biography the most fascinating.  The
the hope came to him that, following the example of Franklin, him, also,
it would become a succeeded man.

His/her mother, bewaring above to intervals of the stockings that they had
accursed state so repeatedly that almost the original weaving was
lost completely of sight of, it noticed as absorbed it was him.

"Is Your book interesting Harry?" she asked.

"It is the most interesting book that I have ever read", it said Harry with a,
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