A short story about a boy and his quest to be "lucky". The boy knows that his family is struggling with money and he asks his mother how other people have more than they do. She says that some people are simply more "lucky" than others, and that their father was in fact, very unlucky. The boy begins searching for luck, and finds it while he's riding his rocking horse. Through some unknown force, the boy is able to predict the winner of the next horse race, after riding his rocking horse. The story ends with the boy struggling to keep up with the amount of money that he thinks his mother wants, because she continually desires more and more money. The boy dies one night after riding the rocking horse for a very long time.