Horatio Alger

“ Carton looked at Jasper in anger and mortification.
"I begin to understand how good a friend you are," he said.
"I am not fool enough to pinch myself to keep you," said Jasper bluntly. "You are a man of twenty five and I am only a boy. You ought to be able to take care of yourself."
"Just give me a dollar, or lend it Jasper, and I will risk it at play. I may rise from the table with a hundred. ”

“ I am terribly hard up, and our source of income has failed us. Haven't you got a dollar or two to spare?"
"No," answered Jasper coldly. "I only get seven dollars a week."
"But you have nearly all that. You only have to hand in two dollars a week to your uncle." ”

“ It was all the money I had besides the five dollar bill, and I am sure the news boy will make better use of it than I would."
"That was the young man that was walking with Jasper," reflected Rodney. "Well, he is certainly a better fellow than he. Thanks to this quarter, I shall have made eighty cents today, and still have half a dozen papers. That is encouraging." ”