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                                   A

                          CHANCE FOR HIMSELF;

                                  OR,

                     JACK HAZARD AND HIS TREASURE.

                                   BY

                           J. T. TROWBRIDGE,

   AUTHOR OF “JACK HAZARD AND HIS FORTUNES,” “LAWRENCE’S ADVENTURES,”
                          “COUPON BONDS,” ETC.


                    [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo]


                                BOSTON:
                      JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
            LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.
                                 1872.




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        Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,

                       BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,

       in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.




          UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE.




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                               CONTENTS.

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  CHAPTER                                                          PAGE
       I. THE THUNDER-SQUALL                                          7
      II. WHAT JACK FOUND IN THE LOG                                 13
     III. “TREASURE-TROVE”                                           19
      IV. IN WHICH JACK COUNTS HIS CHICKENS                          28
       V. WAITING FOR THE DEACON                                     32
      VI. “ABOUT THAT HALF-DOLLAR”                                   36
     VII. HOW JACK WENT FOR HIS TREASURE                             41
    VIII. JACK AND THE SQUIRE                                        49
      IX. THE SQUIRE’S PERPLEXITY AND JACK’S STRATAGEM               58
       X. “THE HUSWICK TRIBE”                                        65
      XI. THE “COURT” AND THE “VERDICT”                              70
     XII. HOW HOD’S TROUSERS WENT TO THE SQUIRE’S HOUSE              78
    XIII. HOW JACK RESCUED LION, BUT MISSED THE TREASURE             82
     XIV. SQUIRE PETERNOT AT HOME                                    89
      XV. JACK AND THE HUSWICK BOYS                                  96
     XVI. HOW JACK CALLED AT THE SQUIRE’S                           104
    XVII. HOW JACK TOOK TO HIS HEELS                                111
   XVIII. HOW THE HEELS WENT HOME WITHOUT SHOES AND STOCKINGS       116
     XIX. HOW JACK WAS INVITED TO RIDE                              122
      XX. HOW THE SHOES AND STOCKINGS CAME HOME                     128
     XXI. JACK IN DISGRACE                                          135
    XXII. JACK AND THE JOLLY CONSTABLE                              143
   XXIII. BEFORE JUDGE GARTY                                        150
    XXIV. THE PRISONER’S CUP OF MILK                                157
     XXV. JACK’S PRISONERS                                          160
    XXVI. THE OWNER OF THE POTATO PATCH, AND HIS DOG                167
   XXVII. THE RACE, AND HOW IT ENDED                                174
  XXVIII. THE SEARCH, AND HOW IT ENDED                              179
    XXIX. THE CULVERT AND THE CORNFIELD                             187
     XXX. JACK BREAKFASTS AND RECEIVES A VISITOR                    194
    XXXI. TEA WITH AUNT PATSY                                       201
   XXXII. A STARLIGHT WALK WITH ANNIE FELTON                        208
  XXXIII. A STRANGE CALL AT A STRANGE HOUR OF THE NIGHT             216
   XXXIV. HOW JACK WON A BET, AND RETURNED A FAVOR                  221
    XXXV. AT MR. CHATFORD’S GATE                                    227
   XXXVI. THE “RIDE” CONTINUED                                      234
  XXXVII. ONE OF THE DEACON’S BLUNDERS                              239
 XXXVIII. THE DEACON’S DIPLOMACY                                    246
   XXXIX. A TURN OF FORTUNE                                         251
      XL. THE SQUIRE’S TRIUMPH                                      257
     XLI. HOW IT ALL ENDED                                          264




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                         A CHANCE FOR HIMSELF.

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                               CHAPTER I

                          THE THUNDER-SQUALL.


[Illustration]


ON a high, hilly pasture, occupying the northeast corner of Peach Hill
Farm, a man and two boys were one afternoon clearing the ground of
stones.

The man—noticeable for his round shoulders, round puckered mouth, and
two large, shining front teeth—wielded a stout iron bar called a “crow,”
with which he pried up the turf-bound rocks, and helped to tumble them
over upon a drag, called in that region a “stun-boat.” The larger of the
boys—a bright, active lad of about fourteen years—l