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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Ragged Dick: Or Street Life In New York With The Boot-Blacks

Ragged Dick: Or Street Life In New York With The Boot-Blacks

Alger, Horatio, Jr.

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Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1507719914
ISBN13: 9781507719916
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 26 2015
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.27 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Ragged Dick is a fourteen-year-old bootblack - he smokes, drinks occasionally, and sleeps on the streets - but he is anxious to turn over a new leaf, and try to grow up 'spectable. He won't steal under any circumstances, and many gentlemen who are impressed with this virtue (and his determination to succeed) offer their aid. Mr. Greyson, for example, invites him to church and Mr. Whitney gives him five dollars for performing a service. Dick uses the money to open a bank account and to rent his first apartment. He fattens his bank account by practicing frugality and is tutored by his roommate Fosdick in the three R's. When Dick rescues a drowning child, the grateful father rewards him with a new suit and a job in his mercantile firm. With this final event, Richard is cut off from the old vagabond life which he hoped never to resume, and henceforth will call himself Richard Hunter, Esq.

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