The Cash Boy
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Alger Horatio Jr.. The Cash Boy
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. A REVELATION
CHAPTER II. MRS. FOWLER’S STORY
CHAPTER III. LEFT ALONE
CHAPTER IV. THE TOWN AUTOCRAT
CHAPTER V. A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER VI. FRANK GETS A PLACE
CHAPTER VII. THE CASH BOY HAS AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER VIII. AN UNEXPECTED ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER IX. THE HOUSEKEEPER’S NEPHEW
CHAPTER X. THE HOUSEKEEPER SCHEMING
CHAPTER XI. JOHN WADE
CHAPTER XII. A FALSE FRIEND
CHAPTER XIII. THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
CHAPTER XIV. SPRINGING THE TRAP
CHAPTER XV. FROM BAD TO WORSE
CHAPTER XVI. AN ACCOMPLICE FOUND
CHAPTER XVII. FRANK AND HIS JAILER
CHAPTER XVIII “OVER THE HILL TO THE POORHOUSE”
CHAPTER XIX. WHAT FRANK HEARD THROUGH THE CREVICE
CHAPTER XX. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXI. JOHN WADE’S DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XXII. CONCLUSION
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A group of boys was assembled in an open field to the west of the public schoolhouse in the town of Crawford. Most of them held hats in their hands, while two, stationed sixty feet distant from each other, were “having catch.”
Tom Pinkerton, son of Deacon Pinkerton, had just returned from Brooklyn, and while there had witnessed a match game between two professional clubs. On his return he proposed that the boys of Crawford should establish a club, to be known as the Excelsior Club of Crawford, to play among themselves, and on suitable occasions to challenge clubs belonging to other villages. This proposal was received with instant approval.
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“Nothing, I believe, Frank.”
“I thought you looked at me as if you wanted to say something.” “There is something I must say to you before I die.”
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