They are pure in tone and
inspiring in influence, and many reforms in the juvenile life of
New York may be traced to them. Among the best known are:
Strong and Steady; Strive and Succeed; Try and Trust: Bound
to Rise; Risen from the Ranks; Herbert Carter's Legacy; Brave and
Bold; Jack's Ward; Shifting for Himself; Wait and Hope; Paul the
Peddler; Phil the Fiddler: Slow and Sure: Julius the Street Boy;
Tom the Bootblack; Struggling Upward; Facing the World; The Cash
Boy; Making His Way; Tony the Tramp; Joe's Luck; Do and Dare: Only
an Irish Boy; Sink or Swim; A Cousin's Conspiracy; Andy Gordon; Bob
Burton; Harry Vane; Hector's Inheritance; Mark Manson's Triumph;
Sam's Chance; The Telegraph Boy; The Young Adventurer; The Young
Outlaw; The Young Salesman, and Luke Walton..
CHAPTER I
"Sit up to the table, children, breakfast's ready."
The speaker was a woman of middle age, not good-looking in
the ordinary acceptation of the term, but nevertheless she looked
good. She was dressed with extreme plainness, in a cheap calico;
but though cheap, the dress was neat. The children she addressed
were six in number, varying in age from twelve to four. The oldest,
Harry, the hero of the present story, was a broad-shouldered, sturdy
boy, with a frank, open face, resolute, though good-natured.
"Father isn't here," said Fanny, the second child.
"He'll be in directly.
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