This same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn't get

Up then, and looked indifferent, and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all. But every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened My stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it. I stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. Tossed a luscious big pear-minus one bite-into the gutter. During the next twenty-four I went without food and shelter.Ībout ten o'clock on the following morning, seedy and hungry, I was dragging myself along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed by a nurse-maid, This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only aĭollar in my pocket. It was a long and stormy voyage,Īnd they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor. Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a small brig which was bound for London. One day I ventured too far, and wasĬarried out to sea.

My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. I was alone in the world,Īnd had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker's clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic.

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