That Printer of Udell’s

“O God, take keer o’ Dick!” His mother’s dying prayer is all the shelter the frightened boy has while his drunken father sleeps beside the fire.

Sixteen years later, in the raw gray dawn, Dick Falkner wakes beneath a straw stack outside Boyd City, a bustling Middle Western mining town. Hungry and nearly penniless, the printer shares his scant breakfast with a stranger—and discovers the man knows his father. The past Dick has struggled to leave behind is suddenly close at hand, just as he searches for work and a chance to make his own way. What does this old acquaintance remember, and what will Dick do when he hears it?

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