HIS BIG OPPORTUNITY
BY AMY LE FEUVRE
HIS BIG OPPORTUNITY
BY AMY LE FEUVRE
Author of "Probable Sons," "The Odd One,"
"Teddy's Button," etc, etc.
1898
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Quite a Little Party of Friends to See Him Off
Old Principle Laughed at Dudley's Notion
"Now Then, You Rascals, What Are You Doing to My Donkey?"
I
ON THE GARDEN WALL
They were sitting astride on the top of the old garden wall. Below themon the one side stretched a sweet old-fashioned English garden lying inthe blaze of an August sun. In the distance, peeping from behind awealth of creepers and ivy was the old stone house. It was at an hour inthe afternoon when everything seemed to be at a standstill: two or threedogs lay on the soft green lawn fast asleep, an old gardener smoking hispipe and sitting on the edge of a wheelbarrow seemed following theirexample; and birds and insects only kept up a monotonous and drowsydirge.
But the two little figures clad in white cricketting flannels, were fullof life and motion as they kept up an eager and animated conversation ontheir lofty seat.
"You see, Dudley, if nothing happens, we will make it happen!"
"Then it isn't an opportunity."
"Yes it is. Why if those old fellows in olden times hadn't ridden off tolook for adventures they would never have found them at home."
"But an opportunity isn't an adventure."
"Yes, it is, you stupid! An adventure is something that happens, and