| Show A half a chance man how many men have succeeded in life to whom not a single circumstance was kenil how often we hear people say of some worthless fallow ah well he never had half a chancel but there are plenty of boys who have come to the front in lifes battle who never had even a quarter of a chance take thomas ball the sculptor for instance ho was but twelve ears old when his father died the poor widow thomas mother young herself and far from strong had five young children there was no more school for thomas after his fathers death he must go to work and help to support the reat he got a place in a grocery store where they gave him a dollar a week not much that but what a difference it made to the poor little from the time he was twelve young ball had always to work for the others until they were all grown up he had little instruction even in his art ind ho never had that little until after he had earned the money to pay for it but he succeeded youths companion |
