Frank Merriwell's First Job; Or, At the Foot of the Ladder
Frank Merriwell's First Job; Or, At the Foot of the Ladder
Frank Merriwell had it all: a Yale education, a bright future, the world by the tail. Then his guardian squandered his inheritance, and suddenly the only thing waiting for him is the door. This is the story of what happens when everything falls apart and a young man must find out what he's really made of. Forced to abandon his college dreams, Frank takes the lowest rung on a railroad job. But he's not done climbing. Through sheer determination and quick thinking, he begins to rise. The question isn't whether he'll make it - it's what he'll discover about himself along the way. He also encounters two children abandoned to the world: a lame boy and his blind sister, traveling performers with no one to look after them. Frank sees something in them worth protecting - perhaps the same dignity he's fighting to reclaim for himself. This is turn-of-the-century American adventure at its purest: a young man stripped of privilege, forced to earn everything, and finding that character isn't inherited but built.
