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[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE
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VOL. II.--NO. 73. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
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Tuesday, March 22, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
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[Illustration: THE LUCK OF THE HORSESHOE.--DRAWN BY W. R. YEAGER.]

TOMMY TUCKER'S HORSESHOE.

BY MRS. FRANK McCARTHY.


Tommy Tucker lives on a "farm" in the city of New York, near the Central
Park. Some people make fun of Tommy's way of living, and call his place
the "sunken lots," and say his family are squatters; but it makes very
little difference to Tommy what remarks were made about his home or