Digging for Gold
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Horatio Alger Jr.. Digging for Gold
CHAPTER I. GRANT AND HIS MOTHER
CHAPTER II. RODNEY BARTLETT
CHAPTER III. A TERRIBLE RESPONSIBILITY
CHAPTER IV. GRANT SAVES THE TRAIN
CHAPTER V. GRANT ORDERS A NEW SUIT
CHAPTER VI. SETH TARBOX MAKES A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER VII. GRANT MAKES UP HIS MIND
CHAPTER VIII. ALL IS SETTLED
CHAPTER IX. THE LONG JOURNEY BEGINS
CHAPTER X. MR. SILVERTHORN’S TREACHERY
CHAPTER XI. AN INDIAN ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER XII. IN DIRE DISTRESS
CHAPTER XIII. THE SOLITARY CABIN
CHAPTER XIV. THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER XV. ARRIVAL AT SACRAMENTO
CHAPTER XVI. GRANT GETS A JOB
CHAPTER XVII. AN UNPLEASANT ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XVIII. A TRUE FRIEND
CHAPTER XIX. GRANT FALLS UNDER SUSPICION
CHAPTER XX. BENTON IS TRAPPED
CHAPTER XXI. ALBERT BENTON IS UNMASKED
CHAPTER XXII. PULLING UP STAKES
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FIRST DAY AT THE MINES
CHAPTER XXIV. GRANT HAS AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XXV. ANOTHER LONELY CABIN
CHAPTER XXVI. NAHUM STOCKTON
CHAPTER XXVII. PAUL CRAMBO
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE BEGINNING OF SUCCESS
CHAPTER XXIX. BENTON HAS A PLAN
CHAPTER XXX. BENTON LAYS HIS PLANS
CHAPTER XXXI. BENTON OPENS THE TRUNK
CHAPTER XXXII. A LETTER FROM MR. CROSMONT
CHAPTER XXXIII. ON TO THE GOLDEN GATE
CHAPTER XXXIV. A STARTLING INCIDENT
CHAPTER XXXV. A TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE TARBOX FAMILY
CHAPTER XXXVII. MRS. BARTLETT’S LITTLE SCHEME
CHAPTER XXXVIII. FINDING THE PRODIGAL
CHAPTER XXXIX. GRANT HEARS FROM HOME
CHAPTER XL. CONCLUSION
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Mr. Tarbox’s farm was located in Woodburn, rather a small town in Iowa. He was originally from Connecticut, but at the age of thirty removed to the then frontier Western State. He owned a large farm, which he had bought at the government price of one dollar and a quarter an acre. He also owned a smaller farm a mile and a half west of the one he occupied, and this he cultivated on shares. It had been a lucky purchase, for a railway intersected it, and he had obtained a large price for the land used. Besides his two farms, he had from six to seven thousand dollars in money; yet it seemed that the richer he grew the meaner he became. He had a married daughter, living in Crestville, six miles away, and when he died she and her family would no doubt inherit the miserly farmer’s possessions. Like her father she was selfish and close so far as others were concerned, but she was willing to spend money on herself. She had a son about the age of Grant, who liked to wear good clothes, and was something of a dude. His name was Rodney Bartlett, and he looked down with infinite contempt on his grandfather’s hard-working stepson.
Just before twelve o’clock a smart looking buggy drove into the yard. The occupants of the buggy were Rodney and his mother.
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“No, you won’t be a boy when you’re grown up,” returned Rodney, looking around to see if his joke were appreciated.
“There aint no disgrace in bein’ a farm boy,” said Seth Tarbox. “I worked on a farm myself when I was a boy, and I’ve worked on a farm ever since.”
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