Andy Grant's Pluck by Horatio Alger - book
ILLUSTRATED Young Andy meets
much adversity in his quest for success.
Andy Grant, a young student, is forced to leave Penhurst Academy
abruptly when his father, a farmer, has $6,000 stolen by a bank employee.
As a result, the father must mortgage the small farm for $3,000. Squire
Carter, a local tightwad and hard-hearted man of wealth, holds the mortgage,
but insists on a clause in the contract which would allow him to foreclose
at the end of two years.
Andy, not cut out for farming, is fortunate to meet Mr. Gale, a rich,
young New Yorker, who is boarding at a local hotel, and hires Andy to
be his tutor at nine dollars a week. This does not last, however, and
Andy must keep finding new jobs until he can afford to pay off his father’s
mortgage. Unfortunately, there are many people who try to get in his
way