Horatio Alger

“ Poor children!"
"That isn't what I think of," said Frank, hastily.
"I can support myself."
"But Grace? She is a delicate girl," said the mother, anxiously. "She cannot make her way as you can."
"She won't need to," said Frank, promptly; "I shall take care of her."
"But you are very young even to support yourself. You are only fourteen."
"I know it, mother, but I am strong, and I am not afraid. There are a hundred ways of making a living." ”

“ Of course you will want one that understands about these matters."
"He means himself," whispered Henry Scott, to his next neighbor; and here he was right.
"Is that all?" asked Sam Pomeroy.
"No; as there will be some expenses, there must be a treasurer to receive and take care of the funds, and we shall need a secretary to keep the records of the club, and write and answer challenges."
"Boys," said the chairman, "you have heard Tom Pinkerton's remarks. Those who are in favor of organizing a club on this plan will please signify it in the usual way." ”

“ Tom Pinkerton, in his own estimation a personage of considerable importance, came forward in a consequential manner, and commenced as follows:
"Mr. Chairman and boys. You all know what has brought us together. We want to start a club for playing baseball, like the big clubs they have in Brooklyn and New York." ”