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Success Against Odds, Or, How a Boy Made His Way
Success Against Odds Or How a Boy Made His Way Author:William Osborn Stoddard General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where... more » you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE CRUISE OF THE RAFT. A Long mile away easterly on the ocean side of the great bar, at the hour when Steve set out with his first boatload of rescued girls, a heavy- looking fishing boat lay half pulled up among heaps of seaweed. At her prow sat a man who gazed listlessly along the bar all the while as if he were waiting for somebody. He was a long, thin, sallow-faced man, and he sat leaning over, half suggesting the idea that it was his nature to be crooked. " What on yearth Sol went away fur, I don't know," he remarked. "Time he was back ag'in. Sol's jest the slowest, laziest, good-for-nawthin' " There he stopped, for he now could see another man plodding along the hard sand of the ocean beach. This was a short, squarely built, round-shoul- dered man, with shaggy black hair and a gray- black, bushy beard. His eyes had a half-shut look under his jutting brows, as if the sunshine were too much for them. His hands were in his pockets as he walked, and he laughed aloud as if something pleased him very much. " Some feller's put in a heap o' work," he soliloquized, " a-getherin' of that stuff all along shore. It's put together good enough, too. Now, he'd never know them timbers ag'in if they got away from him -- leastwise he couldn't swear to 'em if they was took somewhere else an' scattered. It'll float at high tide. Jim an' me can hitch on an' tow it inter the bay and anywhere we like. We must git to it in short order, though. It's worth goin' fur, and it's as much our'n as it is his'n if we kin git away with it." The man at the fishing bo...« less