honey until a bee puts it through his Maeterlinck lab- LITTLE 

 oratory. JOURNEYS 



Glucose is a food; it can be used for all purposes 

 where sugar is used, in degree, at least. And every 

 living person on earth uses sugar as food every day! 

 Now, our ex-grocer knew all about Hambletonian 

 Ten and Dexter; but dextrine, dextrose and glucose 

 were out of his class. Yet, he realized that if sugar 

 could be made from corn, there was a fortune in it for 

 somebody. 



Opportunity, we are told, knocks once at each man's 

 door. Our David Harum was forty, past, and he had 

 often thought Opportunity was tapping, but when he 

 opened wide the door, darkness there, and nothing 

 more! Opportunity had knocked, but was too timid 

 to stay. This time, he heard the knock, and when 

 he opened the door, Opportunity made a rush for 

 him, grabbed him by the collar catch-as-catch-can 

 in a grip he could not shake off. 



Mr. Harum examined as best he could the glucose 

 the German student had made, and then he watched 

 the whole experiment worked out over again. What 

 the particular ingredients were, was still a secret. 

 The man would not sell out ; he wanted to organize 

 a manufactory and take a certain per cent of the 

 profits. David had a thousand dollars, saved out of the 

 wreck at East Aurora; but he knew if he could show 

 certain men that the scheme was genuine, he would 

 be able to raise more. 



Five thousand dollars was secured. But the men who 



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