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CHAPTER III BOYS WITH NO CHANCE In the blackest soils grow the fairest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks. J. G. Holland. Poverty is very terrible, and sometimes kills the very soul within us, but it is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotug dreams.Ouida. Poverty is the sixth sense.German Proverb. It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.Sharpe. There can be no doubt that the captains of industry to-day, using that term in its broadest sense, are men who began life as poor boys.Seth Low. Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder! Shakespeare. " I Am a child of the court," said a pretty little girl at a children's party in Denmark; " my father is Groom of the Chambers, which is a very high office. And those whose names end with ' sen,' " she added. " can never be anything at all. We must put our arms akimbo, and make the elbows quite pointed, so as to keep these ' sen ' people at a great distance." " But my papa can buy a hundred dollars' worth of bonbons, and give them away to children," angrily exclaimed the daughter of the rich merchant Peterj. " Can your papa do that ? " " Yes," chimed in the daughter of an editor, " my papa can put your papa and everybody's papa into thenewspaper. All sorts of people are afraid of him, my papa says, for he can do as he likes with the paper." " Oh, if I could be one of them!" thought a little boy peeping through the crack of the door, by permission of the cook for whom he had been turning thespit. But no, his parents had not even a penny to spare, a...
