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Title: From Farm to Fortune
or Nat Nason's Strange Experience

Author: Horatio Alger Jr.

Release Date: September 10, 2007 [EBook #22565]

Language: English

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FROM FARM TO FORTUNE

_Or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience_

BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.

AUTHOR OF "LOST AT SEA," "NELSON THE NEWSBOY," "OUT FOR BUSINESS," "THE
YOUNG BOOK AGENT," "RAGGED DICK SERIES," ETC.

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK
Copyright, 1905

BY STITT PUBLISHING COMPANY

[Illustration: HE FELT SOMEBODY CATCH HIM BY THE ARM, AND TURNING HE
BEHELD NAT.]

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. NAT ON THE FARM

II. A QUARREL IN THE BARNYARD

III. NAT LEAVES THE FARM

IV. ABNER BALBERRY'S DISCOVERY

V. THE SALE OF A COW

VI. NAT ON LAKE ERIE

VII. AN ADVENTURE AT NIAGARA FALLS

VIII. A FRESH START IN LIFE

IX. FIRST DAYS IN NEW YORK

X. OUT OF WORK ONCE MORE

XI. WHAT A HUNDRED DOLLARS DID

XII. ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

XIII. A SWINDLE EXPOSED

XIV. NAT OBTAINS ANOTHER SITUATION

XV. ABNER AND THE WIDOW GUFF

XVI. ABNER VISITS NEW YORK

XVII. A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

XVIII. NAT MEETS HIS UNCLE

XIX. NAT BECOMES A PRIVATE CLERK

XX. RUFUS CAMERON'S BOLD MOVE

XXI. A MISSING DOCUMENT OF VALUE

XXII. AT THE ELEVATED STATION

XXIII. TOM NOLAN'S CONFESSION

XXIV. THE PAPERS IN THE TRUNK

XXV. BACK TO THE CITY

XXVI. FRED GIVES UP CITY LIFE

XXVII. A SCENE AT THE HOTEL

XXVIII. A SUDDEN PROPOSAL

XXIX. THE CAPTURE OF NICK SMITHERS

XXX. NAT COMES INTO HIS OWN

PREFACE

Nat Nason was a po