We and the World, Part II - A Book for Boys

The Project Gutenberg EBook of We and the World, Part II. (of II.), by Juliana Horatia Ewing This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: We and the World, Part II. (of II.) A Book for Boys Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing Release Date: April 12, 2006 [EBook #18156] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WE AND THE WORLD, PART II. *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Erik Bent, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net WE AND THE WORLD: A BOOK FOR BOYS. PART II. BY JULIANA HORATIA EWING. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, London: Northumberland Avenue, W.C. Brighton: 129, North Street. New York: E. & J.B. YOUNG & CO. [Published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.] WE AND THE WORLD. CHAPTER I. “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”—Old Proverb. I have often thought that the biggest bit of good luck (and I was lucky), which befell me on my outset into the world, was that the man I sat next to in the railway carriage was not a rogue.