10/11 "It was luck and labor." "I accept the amendment, Miss Annie." Oscar's manner changed at once. Joe, the successful Californian, was very different from Joe, the hired boy. He became very attentive to our hero, and before he left town condescended to borrow twenty dollars of him, which he never remembered to repay. He wanted to go back to California with Joe, but his father would not consent. He rose with the rising city, became a very rich man, and now lives in a handsome residence on one of the hills that overlook the bay. |