# Sam's Chance, and How He Improved It

Author: Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26043

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sam%27s+Chance%2C+and+How+He+Improved+It+Alger&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

He was a boy of fifteen, who, for three years, had been drifting about the streets of New York, getting his living as he could; now blacking boots, now selling papers, now carrying bundles--"everything by turns, and nothing long." He was not a model boy, as those who have read his early history, in "The Young Outlaw," are aware; but, on the other hand, he was not extremely bad. He liked fun, even if it involved mischief; and he could not be called strictly truthful nor honest. But he would not wantonly injure or tyrannize over a smaller boy, and there was nothing mean or malicious about him. Still he was hardly the sort of boy a merchant would be likely to select as an office boy, and but...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sam-s-chance-and-how-he-improved-it-26043/chapters/33/index.md)