In the canon
Struggling Upward
Horatio Alger Jr
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1886
- Pages
- Pages 250
A dollar a week is what Groveton pays Luke Larkin to sweep out the schoolhouse and light its stove, and every cent of it goes to his widowed mother. Randolph Duncan, who's father runs the village bank, has a gold watch, new skates and the settled certainty that the world was arranged for his convenience; Luke has patched clothes and the habit of telling the truth when a lie would be cheaper.
He has struggled upward from a boyhood of privation and self-denial into a youth and manhood of prosperity and honor.
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