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A Boy that Would Not Give Up

Anonymous

Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 1913

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Fiction, Juvenile literature, Short Story
A judge watches a poor young boy try to buy a geography book with only sixty-one cents. Eventually the boy finds a used book he can afford, studies hard to become the captain of a ship. Thirty years later, the judge is sailing on the boy's ship, and the boy proves his determination once again by saving the judge's life.
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541-542
English

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Published in The Children's Friend, volume 12, issue 10, pages 541-542, October 1913
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