RAGGED DICK SERIES
FAME AND FORTUNE;
OR,
THE PROGRESS OF RICHARD HUNTER.
BY HORATIO ALGER, Jr.
AUTHOR OF "RAGGED DICK," "FRANK'S CAMPAIGN," "PAUL PRESCOTT'SCHARGE," "CHARLIE CODMAN'S CRUISE," ETC.
LORING, Publisher.
Cor. Bromfield and Washington Streets.
BOSTON.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, byA. K. LORING, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for theDistrict of Massachusetts.
To
MY FATHER,
FROM WHOM I HAVE NEVER FAILED TO RECEIVE
LITERARY SYMPATHY AND ENCOURAGEMENT,
This Volume
IS DEDICATED.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. A BOARDING-HOUSE IN BLEECKER STREET.
CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION TO MERCANTILE LIFE.
CHAPTER III. AT THE POST-OFFICE.
CHAPTER IV. LIFE AT THE BOARDING-HOUSE.
CHAPTER V. DICK RECEIVES TWO VALUABLE PRESENTS.
CHAPTER VI. MR. GILBERT IS ASTONISHED.
CHAPTER VII. A FINANCIAL DISCUSSION.
CHAPTER VIII. NEW PLANS.
CHAPTER IX. ROSWELL CRAWFORD AT HOME.
CHAPTER X. A STORE ON SIXTH AVENUE.
CHAPTER XI. A NEW ALLIANCE.
CHAPTER XII. DICK FALLS INTO A TRAP.
CHAPTER XIII. DICK IN THE STATION-HOUSE.
CHAPTER XIV. MICKY MAGUIRE'S DISAPPOINTMENT.
CHAPTER XV. THE FRANKLIN STREET STATION-HOUSE.
CHAPTER XVI. ROSWELL CRAWFORD RETIRES FROM BUSINESS.
CHAPTER XVII. DICK'S ACQUITTAL.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CUP AND THE LIP.
CHAPTER XIX. ANOTHER ARREST.
CHAPTER XX. BEFORE THE PARTY.
CHAPTER XXI. IDA GREYSON'S PARTY.
CHAPTER XXII. MICKY MAGUIRE RETURNS FROM THE ISLAND.
CHAPTER XXIII. FAME AND FORTUNE.
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PREFACE.
"Fame and Fortune," like its predecessor, "Ragged Dick," wascontributed as a serial story to the "Schoolmate," a popular juvenilemagazine published in Boston. The generous commendations of the firstvolume by the Press, and by private correspondents whose position makestheir approval of value, have confirmed the author in his purpose towrite a series of stories intended to illustrate the life and experiencesof the friendless and vagrant c