Terry’s Trials and Triumphs

Terry Ahearn is smaller than the boy he’s fighting, but he’s defending a friend’s treasured plaything. Then someone cries, “The peelers!”—and the whole crowd vanishes, leaving only a bewildered puppy for the police to arrest.

In Halifax, where the crowded Long Wharf bustles with ships and Blind Alley reeks of brewery fumes, Terry grows up with little to hope for and fewer people to guide him. His father drinks away the family’s earnings, and Terry’s mischief has already cost him more than one chance at honest work. Yet beneath the battered hat and freckles is a boy with a generous heart—and a startling ambition: he means to become a gentleman and give his mother a ride in a fine carriage. Can Terry turn that bold promise into anything more than a boy’s dream?

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