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BAD LUCK AN OPPORTUNITY.
By Victor Lauriston.
Bob was the fifth of a family of four
teen; all boys. His father farmed, not
because he knew anything about farm
ing, but because he thought there was
money in it;* naturally, therefore, he
made a botch of the business. And
Bob, after working on the farm till 16,
chanced to meet a friend who asked
if he would like to become an iron
moulder. He was willing. Anything
was preferable to a farm where pov
erty was king.
At 25 Bob was a moulder still, with
out education of any kind other than
that necessary to his trade. He had
never seen the inside of a school
room. At the age of 25, he had charge
of a big job at St. Thomas, Ontario.
Among his men was a cranky English
man. Bob had just received his pay,
and was “setting ’em up” for the men,
when the Englishman made a mournful
remark “as ’ow ’e ’ud like to see ’is
hold ’ome.”
“Come along, then!” rejoined Bob,
and inside of a few hours the two men
were bound for England.
Bob landed’in Liverpool without a
cent, and went straightway to work.
During a year or so he worked at his
trade in most of the big cities. Then
he returned to his old home in West
ern Ontario. He found, to his disgust,
that in his absence things had changed
and his old cronies were scattered to
the four winds of heaven. Without
them, he felt unutterably lonely. After
suffering the loneliness as best he
could for a few weeks, he sought re
lief in reading. His reading begat a
desire for study, which theretofore he
had disliked. He studied, qualifying
for the teaching profession—and that
in Ontario, where qualifications were
not low. When, at the age of 27, he
went to a country school to teach, he
was entering a school room for the
first time in his life.
He continued to study, rose in his
profession, and today fills the post of
a public school inspector. His inspec
torate is one of the foremost in On
tario. He would still, doubtless, be the
unlettered iron moulder he was at 25
if it hadn’t been for the trip to Eng
land, which resulted in dissociation
from his friends —what at the time he
looked on as the worst of calamities.
Bill was his youngest brother. At
the age of fourteen he was in every
way a likely fellow, giving promise of
making a first class laborer. He was
without education —a day laborer need
led none. He entered life at 14 with a
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sawyer of wood began brightly, but
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In the course of his operations on the
woodpile, he unfortunately included
the fingers of his right hand. Natu
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that something must be done for their
unlucky companion. So, good hearted
Irishmen, they chipped in and lent him
a couple of hundred dollars, with
which he set up a general store in a
small lumbering village next door to
nowhere. His teacher brother helped
him keep books, and gave him, in win
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The Golden Age for December 6, 190?.
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his general store and went to the coun
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misfortune which debarred him from
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If it hadn’t been for that accident he
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