The Making of An American
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Yet in all his ups and downs he never for- got his home. While his mother lived he helped support her in far-off Denmark ; and when she was gone, no month passed that he did not send home the half of his wages for the support of his crippled sister in the old town. Charles was not bad. He was a ^oor, helpless, unhappy boy, who came to me 114 THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN for help, and I had none to give, God pity him and me.
The Western trip I spoke of was my undoing. Puffed up by my success as a s...alesman, I yielded in an evil hour to the blandishments of my manufac- turers, and accepted the general agency of the State of Illinois, with headquarters in Chicago. It sounded well, but it did not work well. Chicago had not yet got upon its feet after the great fire ; and its young men were too sharp for me. In six weeks they had cleaned me out bodily, had run away with my irons and with money they borrowed of me to start them in business. I returned to Pittsburg as poor as ever, to find that the agents I had left behind in my Pennsylvania territory had dealt with me after the same fashion.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Yet in all his ups and downs he never for- got his home. While his mother lived he helped support her in far-off Denmark ; and when she was gone, no month passed that he did not send home the half of his wages for the support of his crippled sister in the old town. Charles was not bad. He was a ^oor, helpless, unhappy boy, who came to me 114 THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN for help, and I had none to give, God pity him and me.
The Western trip I spoke of was my undoing. Puffed up by my success as a s...alesman, I yielded in an evil hour to the blandishments of my manufac- turers, and accepted the general agency of the State of Illinois, with headquarters in Chicago. It sounded well, but it did not work well. Chicago had not yet got upon its feet after the great fire ; and its young men were too sharp for me. In six weeks they had cleaned me out bodily, had run away with my irons and with money they borrowed of me to start them in business. I returned to Pittsburg as poor as ever, to find that the agents I had left behind in my Pennsylvania territory had dealt with me after the same fashion.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 to read onlineMoreLess
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