{"product_id":"2940013216990","title":"HARDING'S LUCK","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          CHAPTER                            PAGE\u003cbr\u003e             I. TINKLER AND THE MOONFLOWER      1\u003cbr\u003e            II. BURGLARS                       31\u003cbr\u003e           III. THE ESCAPE                     58\u003cbr\u003e            IV. WHICH WAS THE DREAM?           82\u003cbr\u003e             V. \"TO GET YOUR OWN LIVING\"      115\u003cbr\u003e            VI. BURIED TREASURE               144\u003cbr\u003e           VII. DICKIE LEARNS MANY THINGS     178\u003cbr\u003e          VIII. GOING HOME                    208\u003cbr\u003e            IX. KIDNAPPED                     228\u003cbr\u003e             X. THE NOBLE DEED                250\u003cbr\u003e            XI. LORD ARDEN                    275\u003cbr\u003e           XII. THE END                       300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarding's Luck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTINKLER AND THE MOONFLOWER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDICKIE lived at New Cross. At least the address was New Cross, but\u003cbr\u003ereally the house where he lived was one of a row of horrid little houses\u003cbr\u003ebuilt on the slope where once green fields ran down the hill to the\u003cbr\u003eriver, and the old houses of the Deptford merchants stood stately in\u003cbr\u003etheir pleasant gardens and fruitful orchards. All those good fields and\u003cbr\u003ehappy gardens are built over now. It is as though some wicked giant had\u003cbr\u003etaken a big brush full of yellow ochre paint, and another full of mud\u003cbr\u003ecolor, and had painted out the green in streaks of dull yellow and\u003cbr\u003efilthy brown; and the brown is the roads and the yellow is the houses.\u003cbr\u003eMiles and miles and miles of them, and not a green thing to be seen\u003cbr\u003eexcept the cabbages in the greengrocers' shops, and here and there some\u003cbr\u003epoor trails of creeping-jenny drooping from a dirty window-sill. There\u003cbr\u003eis a little yard at the back of each house; this is called \"the garden,\"\u003cbr\u003eand some of these show green--but they only show it to the houses' back\u003cbr\u003ewindows. You cannot see it from the street. These gardens are green,\u003cbr\u003ebecause green is the color that most pleases and soothes men's eyes; and\u003cbr\u003ehowever you may shut people up between bars of yellow and mud color, and\u003cbr\u003ehowever hard you may make them work, and however little wage you may pay\u003cbr\u003ethem for working, there will always be found among those people some men\u003cbr\u003ewho are willing to work a little longer, and for no wages at all, so\u003cbr\u003ethat they may have green things growing near them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut there were no green things growing in the garden at the back of the\u003cbr\u003ehouse where Dickie lived with his aunt. There were stones and bones, and\u003cbr\u003ebits of brick, and dirty old dish-cloths matted together with grease and\u003cbr\u003emud, worn-out broom-heads and broken shovels, a bottomless pail, and the\u003cbr\u003emouldy remains of a hutch where once rabbits had lived. But that was a\u003cbr\u003every long time ago, and Dickie had never seen the rabbits. A boy had\u003cbr\u003ebrought a brown rabbit to school once, buttoned up inside his jacket,\u003cbr\u003eand he had let Dickie hold it in his hands for several minutes before\u003cbr\u003ethe teacher detected its presence and shut it up in a locker till school\u003cbr\u003eshould be over. So Dickie knew what rabbits were like. And he was fond\u003cbr\u003eof the hutch for the sake of what had once lived there.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068727017712,"sku":"2940013216990","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013216990_p0.jpg?v=1763578369","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013216990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}