Helping Himself

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 95







I CAPITULATE XXVI.

A WESTERN BOX





"Abner!"

The orator was a tall woman, lean, in a loose, you/he/she was grown weak, calico
dresses, and she witnessed the door of a box in a Western compensation.

"What lack of yer?" come as a replica by a tall, few healthy-looking at boy
in overall that are sat on a trunk in the enclosure.

"I want you to divide some wood for the heater."

"I am tired", he/she spoke to goslow mode the boy.

"I will get tired her!" says his/her mother, brusquely. "You tall, lazy,
good-for-nothing the drone! Here I have been above since five,
slavin' for Your drunk father and You. Where has you/he/she gone?"

"To the village, I calculate."

"To the tavern, I calculate. It is there that he spends all the money him
it finds taking of;  he never gives me a cent. This is the only suit that I have
gotten, omits an old alpaca. A lot that him care!"

"It my guilt is not, is it?" asked to the boy, indifferently.

"You are a-follerin' in his/her footsteps. You will be alone another Joel
Barton--in the moment in which shif'less and idler. Only divide me some wood before me
find taking of yer!"

Abner slowly of rose, it went to the shed for an ax, and in the more anymore
possible deliberate way started to respect the commands of his/her mother.

The box occupied by Abner and its parents was away from the being a
building. It contained four rooms, but furniture was more anymore than the
primitive description. Joel Barton, the nominal head of the famliy,
it was the acrid holder of eighty of earth from which it is probable that he has
gotten a living comfortable, for the ground it was productive;  but him
it was lazy, incapable and intemperate, as his/her wife had described him.
If he had been as I activate and energetic as her it was, it is probable that he would have been
in very different circumstances. It is anybody wonders that the poor woman
you/he/she was pierced and it almost irritated over the persistence, while seeing how everybody
its industry was neutralized by the habits of his/her husband. Took Abner
later his/her father, although he had not developed a taste for drink yet,
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