Horatio Alger

“ I raised money enough to get home."
"I hear you brought home a few hundred dollars."
"Yes, sir."
"Oh, well," said the squire patronizingly, "that's good beginning."
"It must seem very little to a rich man like you, squire."
"Oh, no!" said the squire patronizingly. "You are a young man. I shouldn't wonder if by the time you get as old as I am you might be worth five thousand dollars." ”

“ News spreads fast in a country village. Scarcely an hour had passed when it was generally known that Jefferson Pettigrew had come home from Montana with a few hundred dollars in money, bringing with him a rich boy who could buy out all Burton. ”

“ Still it would do me good to see him. Maybe we might have a home together, and manage to live."
Just then a neighbor entered.
"Have you heard the news?" she asked.
"No; what is it?"
"Your nephew Jefferson Pettigrew has got back." ”