Jr. Horatio Alger
Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664093998
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I — RAGGED DICK IS INTRODUCED TO THE READER
CHAPTER III — DICK MAKES A PROPOSITION
CHAPTER V — CHATHAM STREET AND BROADWAY
CHAPTER VI — UP BROADWAY TO MADISON SQUARE
CHAPTER VIII — DICK'S EARLY HISTORY
CHAPTER IX — A SCENE IN A THIRD AVENUE CAR
CHAPTER X — INTRODUCES A VICTIM OF MISPLACED CONFIDENCE
CHAPTER XI — DICK AS A DETECTIVE
CHAPTER XII — DICK HIRES A ROOM ON MOTT STREET
CHAPTER XIV — A BATTLE AND A VICTORY
CHAPTER XV — DICK SECURES A TUTOR
CHAPTER XVI — THE FIRST LESSON
CHAPTER XVII — DICK'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN SOCIETY
CHAPTER XVIII — MICKY MAGUIRE'S SECOND DEFEAT
CHAPTER XIX — FOSDICK CHANGES HIS BUSINESS
CHAPTER XX — NINE MONTHS LATER
CHAPTER XXI — DICK LOSES HIS BANK-BOOK
CHAPTER XXII — TRACKING THE THIEF
CHAPTER XXIII — TRAVIS IS ARRESTED
CHAPTER XXIV — DICK RECEIVES A LETTER
CHAPTER XXV — DICK WRITES HIS FIRST LETTER
CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXCITING ADVENTURE
THE PROGRESS OF RICHARD HUNTER.
PREFACE
"Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evidences of favor that it has been rewritten and considerably enlarged, and is now presented to the public as the first volume of a series intended to illustrate the life and experiences of the friendless and vagrant children who are now numbered by thousands in New York and other cities.
Several characters in the story are sketched from life. The necessary information has been gathered mainly from personal observation and conversations with the boys themselves. The author is indebted also to the excellent Superintendent of the Newsboys' Lodging House, in Fulton Street, for some facts of which he has been able to make use. Some anachronisms may be noted. Wherever they occur, they have been admitted, as aiding in the development of the story, and will probably be considered as of little importance in an unpretending volume, which does not aspire to strict historical accuracy.
The author hopes that, while the volumes in this series may prove interesting stories, they may also have the effect of enlisting the sympathies of his readers in behalf of the unfortunate children whose life is described, and of leading them to co-operate with the praiseworthy efforts now making by the Children's Aid Society and other organizations to ameliorate their condition.
New York, April, 1868
CHAPTER I—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 hadn't called you."
"What time is it?" asked Dick.
"Seven o'clock."
"Seven