whom he sold his
shoes, that the market was glutted and sales slow.

"I shall not want any more goods for a month or two," the letter
concluded. "I will let you know, when I more."

Mr. Leavitt read this letter aloud in the shop.

"So it seems we are to have a vacation," he said. "That's the worst of
the shoe trade. It isn't steady. When it's good everybody rushes into
it, and the market soon gets overstocked. Then there's no work for
weeks."

This was a catastrophe for which Harry was no prepared. He heard the
announcement with a grave face, for to him it was a serious calamity.
Twenty-three dollars were all that he had saved from the money lost and
this would be increased by a dollar or two only, when he had settled up
with Mr. Leavitt. If he stayed here did not obtain work, he must pay his
board, and that would soon swallow up his money. Could he get work in
any other shop? That was an important question.

"Do you think I can get into any other shop in town?" he inquired
anxiously of Mr. Leavitt.

"You can try, Harry; but I guess you'll find others no better off than
I."

This was not very encouraging, but Harry determined not to give up
without an effort. He devoted the next day to going around among the
shoe shops; but everywhere he met with unfavorable answers. Some had
ready suspended. Others were about to do so.

"It seems as if all my money must go," thought Harry, looking
despondently at his little hoard. "First the ten dollars Luke Harrison
stole. Then work stopped. I don't know but it would be better for me to
go home."

But the more Harry thought of this, the less he liked it. It would be an
inglorious ending to his campaign. Probably now he would not be able to
carry out his plan of paying for the cow; but if his father should
lose it, he might be able, if he found work, to buy him another Squire
Green's cow was not the only cow in the world and all would not be lost
if he could not buy her.

"I won't give up yet," said Harry, pluckily. "I must expect to meet with
some bad luck. I suppose everybody does. Something'll turn up for me if
I try to make it."

This was good philosophy. Waiting passively for something to turn up is
bad policy and likely to lead to disappointment; but waiting actively,
ready to seize any chance that may offer, is quite different. The world
is full of chances, and from such chances so seized has been based many
a prosperous career.

During his first idle day, Harr