Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy
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Alger Horatio Jr.. Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy
CHAPTER I. AROUND THE BREAKFAST TABLE
CHAPTER II. INTRODUCING THE HERO
CHAPTER III. A COLLISION
CHAPTER IV. A DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE
CHAPTER V. THE ENVELOPE
CHAPTER VI. ON THE WAY
CHAPTER VII. A NEW HOME
CHAPTER VIII. THE GHOST IN THE ATTIC
CHAPTER IX. EXPOSING A FRAUD
CHAPTER X. THE CLOUDS GATHER
CHAPTER XI. A CRISIS
CHAPTER XII. RALPH THE RANGER
CHAPTER XIII. A MOMENT OF PERIL
CHAPTER XIV. TAKEN PRISONER
CHAPTER XV. A FOUR-FOOTED FOE
CHAPTER XVI. JUST TOO LATE
CHAPTER XVII. NEW ACQUAINTANCES
CHAPTER XVIII. A YOUNG ARISTOCRAT
CHAPTER XIX. A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER
CHAPTER XX. FACING A BURGLAR
CHAPTER XXI. HERBERT’S REWARD
CHAPTER XXII. ROBBED IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXIII. A BUSINESS CALL
CHAPTER XXIV. FINDING A BOARDING PLACE
CHAPTER XXV. GETTING A SITUATION
CHAPTER XXVI. A FAMILY COUNCIL
CHAPTER XXVII. AT THE CONCERT
CHAPTER XXVIII. PETER GREENLEAF AGAIN
CHAPTER XXIX. SPARRING
CHAPTER XXX. AN UNEXPECTED BLOW
CHAPTER XXXI. MR. STANTON IS SURPRISED
CHAPTER XXXII. RISEN FROM THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXXIII. A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER XXXIV. CONCLUSION
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If my young readers do not find the town of Waverley on the map of Ohio, they may conclude that it was too small to attract the notice of the map-makers. The village is small, consisting of about a dozen houses, a church, a schoolhouse, and, as a matter of course, one of that well-known class of stores in which everything required for the family is sold, from a dress-pattern to a pound of sugar. Outside of the village there are farmhouses, surrounded by broad acres, which keep them at respectable distances from each other, like the feudal castles of the Middle Ages. The land is good, and the farmers are thrifty and well-to-do; but probably the whole town contains less than a thousand inhabitants.
In one of the houses, near the church, lived Dr. Kent, whose letter has already been referred to. He was a skillful physician, and a very worthy man, who would have been very glad to be benevolent if his limited practice had supplied him with the requisite means. But chance had directed him to a healthy and sparsely-settled neighborhood, where he was able only to earn a respectable livelihood, and indeed found himself compelled to economize at times where he would have liked to indulge himself in expense.
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“His name is Herbert Mason, son of the Widder Mason that died two or three weeks since. Poor boy, he’s left alone in the world.”
“Where’s he stopping?” asked Holden, hardly knowing why he asked the question.
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