THE OLIVER OPTIC BOOKS RETAIL PRICE, FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY Every boy and girl knows the Oliver Optic Books, and The New York Book Company’s Edition is the lowest priced cloth-bound edition. It is better in many ways than some of the higher priced editions. The covers are stamped in colors, in different and attractive designs. Frontispiece; decorated lining papers and title page; size, five by seven and a quarter inches. _The following books are ready to deliver_: The Boat Club All Aboard Little by Little Now or Never Poor and Proud Try Again Fighting Joe Haste and Waste Hope and Have In School and Out Rich and Humble Work and Win ASK FOR THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY’S OLIVER OPTIC BOOKS THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY PUBLISHERS, 147 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. [Illustration: “I want to leave you my card. There it is!”] RICH AND HUMBLE A STORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY OLIVER OPTIC AUTHOR OF “THE BOAT CLUB,” “ALL ABOARD,” “POOR AND PROUD,” “TRY AGAIN,” “NOW OR NEVER,” ETC. [Illustration] NEW YORK THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY 1911 [Illustration: BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY William Taylor Adams, American author, better known and loved by boys and girls through his pseudonym “Oliver Optic,” was born July 30, 1822, in the town of Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, about twenty-five miles from Boston. For twenty years he was a teacher in the Public Schools of Boston, where he came in close contact with boy life. These twenty years taught him how to reach the boy’s heart and interest as the popularity of his books attest. His story writing began in 1850 when he was twenty-eight years old and his first book was published in 1853. He also edited “The Oliver Optic Magazine,” “The Student and Schoolmate,” “Our Little Ones.” Mr. Adams died at the age of seventy-five years, in Boston, March 27, 1897. He was a prolific writer and his stories are most attractive and unobjectionable. Most of his books were published in series. Probably the most famous of these is “The Boat Club Series” which comprises the following titles: “The Boat Club,” “All Aboard,” “Now or Never,” “Try Again,” “Poor and Proud,” “Little by Little.” All of these titles will be found in this edition. Other well-known series are his “Soldier Boy Series,” “Sailor Boy Series,” “Woodville Stories.” The “Woodville Stories” will also be found in this edition.] RICH AND HUMBLE CHAPTER I A MISSIONARY TO THE HEATHEN “Please give me ten dollars, father?” said Bertha Grant. “Ten dollars!” exclaimed Mr. Grant, with a smile which looked very encouraging to the applicant. “What in the world do you want ten dollars for?” “Oh, I want to use it, father.” “Well, I suppose you do. I have not the slightest doubt on that point.” “You are in a hurry now, father, and I will tell you all about it another time,” replied Bertha, casting an anxious glance at her brother, who appeared to be an interested listener.