Capitolo 1
DOES AND YOU CHALLENGE
OR
The Struggle of a Brave Boy for the Fortune
FROM
HORATIO ALGER, JR.
YORK NUOVA
CHAPTER ME.
THE OFFICE POSTAL AT WAYNEBORO.
"If we could only hold the postal office, mother we should be everybody
you straighten", said Herbert Carr, as his/her mother and he sat together in the
small room from lunch of the simple cottage that had occupied the two
since then him it was a boy of five.
"Yes, Herbert, but I am afraid there won't be a lot of opportunity of him."
"Who would like to pick him/it up from you, mother?"
"Men are selfish, Herbert, and there is no office, however small,
that is not sought after."
"Which was the income last year?" Asked Herbert.
Mrs. Carr referred to a white book that lies on the table in that the
accounts of place-office were kept, and he/she answered:
"Three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty cents."
"I should not think that that would be a lot of an allurement to a
strong man that could work to some business."
"His/her father was happy to have him/it."
"Yes, mother, but he had lost an arm in the war, and it was not able
takes part in some business that you/he/she has asked for both the hands."
"That is true, Herbert, but I am afraid there will be more than one
who will be prepared to assuage me some duties. Old Mrs. Allen
called a to-day of office, and it told me she understood there that
it was a movement to have named Ebenezer Graham afoot."
"Gentleman of country the nephew of Walsingham?"
"Yes; it is understood that the gentleman of country will throw his/her influence in
the staircase and that it will probably decide the matter."
"Then it is very bad of Gentleman of country Walsingham", said Herbert,
indignantly. "He knows that you depend on the office for a lived possession."
"The most greater part of men they are selfish, the my dear Herbert."
"But he was an old schoolmate of father, and it was as his
substitute that father went to the war where he was wounded."
"True, Herbert, but I am afraid that the consideration won't weigh a lot
with John Walsingham."
"I have a great mind to go and to see him/it mother. Have him some