Love's Lottery Ticket
Hector Hardscrabble, a retired business man and a hard-fisted old curmudgeon, who hates the world, is the star boarder at a country boarding-house. The landlady adores him, and the hope of h... Read allHector Hardscrabble, a retired business man and a hard-fisted old curmudgeon, who hates the world, is the star boarder at a country boarding-house. The landlady adores him, and the hope of her life is to become his wife. But he detests her, although he gets the tender cuts of mea... Read allHector Hardscrabble, a retired business man and a hard-fisted old curmudgeon, who hates the world, is the star boarder at a country boarding-house. The landlady adores him, and the hope of her life is to become his wife. But he detests her, although he gets the tender cuts of meat and the largest portions. One day she buys a lottery ticket and wins the capital prize o... Read all