Excerpt from Struggling Upward: Or Luke Larkin's Luck NE Saturday afternoon in January, a lively and animated group of boys were gathered on the western Side of a large pond in the village of Groveton. Prominent among them was a tall, pleasant-looking young man of twenty-two, the teacher of the Centre Gram mar School, Frederic Hopper, AB a recent graduate of Yale College. Evidently there was something of importance on foot. What it was may be learned from the words of the teacher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.