Ragged Dick

By Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Book Id: WPLBN0000580043
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Ragged Dick
Author:	Alger, Horatio, Jr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Excerpt
Excerpt: RAGGED DICK IS INTRODUCED TO THE READER. WAKE up there, youngster, said a rough voice. Ragged Dick opened his eyes slowly, and stared stupidly in the face of the speaker, but did not offer to get up. Wake up, you young vagabond! said the man a little impatiently; I suppose you'd lay there all day, if I...

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: RAGGED DICK, 1 -- HORATIO ALGER JR, 1 -- CHAPTER I. RAGGED DICK IS INTRODUCED TO THE READER, 1 -- CHAPTER II. JOHNNY NOLAN, 5 -- CHAPTER III. DICK MAKES A PROPOSITION, 9 -- CHAPTER IV. DICK'S NEW SUIT, 14 -- CHAPTER V. CHATHAM STREET AND BROADWAY, 18 -- CHAPTER VI. UP BROADWAY TO MADISON SQUARE, 23 -- CHAPTER VII. THE POCKET?BOOK, 26 -- CHAPTER VIII. DICK'S EARLY HISTORY, 31 -- CHAPTER IX. A SCENE IN A THlRD AVENUE CAR, 34 -- CHAPTER X. INTRODUCES A VICTIM OF MISPLACED CONFIDENCE, 40 -- CHAPTER XI. DICK AS A DETECTlVE, 44 -- CHAPTER XII. DICK HIRES A ROOM ON MOTT STREET, 49 -- CHAPTER XIII. MICKY MAGUlRE, 52 -- CHAPTER XIV. A BATTLE AND A VICTORY, 54 -- CHAPTER XV. DICK SECURES A TUTOR, 59 -- CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRST LESSON, 63 -- CHAPTER XVII. DICK'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN SOCIETY, 66 -- CHAPTER XVIII. MICKY MAGUIRE'S SECOND DEFEAT, 71 -- CHAPTER XIX. FOSDICK CHANGES HIS BUSINESS, 75 -- CHAPTER XX. NINE MONTHS LATER, 79 -- CHAPTER XXI. DICK LOSES HIS BANK?BOOK, 84 -- CHAPTER XXII. TRACKING THE THlEF, 88 -- CHAPTER XXIII. TRAVIS IS ARRESTED, 92 -- CHAPTER XXIV. DICK RECEIVES A LETTER, 96 -- CHAPTER XXV. DICK WRITES HIS FIRST LETTER, 99 -- CHAPTER XXVI. AN EXCITING ADVENTURE, 102 -- CHAPTER XXVII. CONCLUSlON, 105