And he would find work ! Chester did not cry , but neither , alas , did he find work . He parted with ten cents of his precious hoard for more crackers , and he spend the night again in the lumber yard . Perhaps I 'll have better luck tomorrow , he thought hopefully . But it really seemed as if there were to be no luck for Chester except bad luck . Day after day passed and , although he tramped resolutely from street to street and visited every place that seemed to offer any chance , he could get no employment . In spite of his pluck , his heart began to fail him . At the end of a week Chester woke up among his lumber to a realization that he was at the end of his resources . He had just five cents left out of the four dollars that were to have been the key to his fortune . He sat gloomily on the wall of his sleeping apartment and munched the one solitary cracker he had left . It must carry him through the day unless he got work . The five cents must be kept for some dire emergency . He started uptown rather aimlessly . In his week 's wanderings he had come to know the city very well and no longer felt confused with its size and bustle . He envied every busy boy he saw . Back in Upton he had sometimes resented the fact that he was kept working continually and was seldom allowed an hour off . Now he was burdened with spare time . It certainly did not seem as if things were fairly divided , he thought . And then he thought no more just then , for one of the queer spells in his head came on . He had experienced them at intervals during the last three days .
Something seemed XXXXX break loose in his head and spin wildly round and round , while houses and people and trees danced and wobbled all about him .
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