Do and Dare - a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 23


"I am sorry for you, gentleman."

"Thanks;  whoever will be been sorry for who has lost his/her parents. Now, as
I have asked on Your business, it is only equitable that I should say
You around me. I am rich to start with. You don't seem envious, for
there is anything to counterbalance. I am of weak constitution,
and they say the doctors that my bellows are stricken. I have studied law,
but the state of my health has forced me to abandon, for the
present at least, the practice of my profession."

"But if you are rich you don't have need to practise", it said Herbert that
you/he/she can be excused for still thinking the destiny of his/her companion a happy.

"No, I don't have need to practise my profession, till now as the profit
of money it pertains to;  but I want anything to occupy my mind. The
they say doctors I should take exercise of considerable out-door;  but me
supposes my physical condition it does me indolent, for my head
exercise has been, so far, to wander to the banks of the river and
reads under the trees."

"That is not very severe exercise", said Herbert, smiling.

"No;  it holds out still me in the open air, and that is anything.
Does now tell me what is Your plans?"

"My hope is to find anything to do what it will train me to help
mother;  but there it doesn't seem a lot of opportunity to find nothing in
Wayneboro. Does he/she think that I could find a place in the city?"

"You were able;  but even if you did, you would find him/it difficult to earn
the Your really living, and there would not be any opportunity of the Your Your help
mother."

Herbert, although naturally blood and full of hope, looked sober. Only
then he had a bite, and it unsheathed a pickerel good-put in order of greatness. This gave a
new direction to his/her thoughts, and he exclaimed, triumphantly:

"Look at this pickerel! He has to weigh on two pounds."

"Everything of that", says the young one, rising and examining the fish
with interest. "Allow me to use Your pole, and sees that fortune I have."

"Certainly."

The young one, some ten minutes later, he/she succeeded in to take a
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