# Sam and Harry - Source: McGuffey's Second Reader (second-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg - Reading level: Grades 1 and 2 - Subjects: Stories - Topics: blind, harry, poor, came, cents, fine - Length: 252 words, about 2 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: SAM AND HARRY. - One fine summer afternoon, Sam was walking home from school. He went along slowly, reading a book. - Sam had spent all his money for the book, but he was a happy boy. - At length he came into the highroad, where there was a gate. A blind man stood, holding it open. - The poor man said, "Please give me a few cents to buy some bread!" But Sam gave him nothing. - What! did Sam give the poor blind man nothing? Yes; for, as I told you, he had spent all his money. - So Sam walked on, very sad. Soon after, a fine carriage came up, and in it were Harry and his mother. - The blind man stood, and held out his hat. "Let us give the poor man something," said Harry to his mother. - His mother gave him some cents. Harry took them, but did not put them into the man's hat. - He threw them into the hedge as far as he could. The poor man could not find them, for, you know, ho was blind. - Sam had turned back to look at the fine carriage. He saw Harry throw the cents into the hedge; so he came back at once, and looked for the money until he found it all for the blind man. - This took so long a time, that he almost lost his supper. - Which of the boys do you think was truly kind to the poor man? - I know which he thanked most in his heart. ## Picture credits - illustrator not named in this edition, Public domain ()