I told you that I began as a canal-boy." She looked at him with quick sympathy.

At once she fancied that she could read old marks of want on his face.

His knuckles were knobbed like a laborer's.

He had had a hard fight! It certainly would be pleasant to rain down comfort and luxury on the good, plucky fellow! "Of course that was all long ago," said Perry.

"I'm not ashamed of it.
As Judge Baker remarked the other day, 'The acknowledged aristocrats of America, to-day, are its self-made men.' He ought to know.