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Title: Crowded Out o' Crofield
or, The Boy who made his Way

Author: William O. Stoddard

Release Date: June 16, 2007 [EBook #21846]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: _The Sorrel Mare was tugging hard at the Rein_.]

CROWDED OUT O' CROFIELD

OR

THE BOY WHO MADE HIS WAY

BY

WILLIAM O. STODDARD

_SIXTH EDITION_

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1897

COPYRIGHT, 1890,

BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

PREFACE.

Only a few of the kindly reviewers of the earlier editions of Crowded
Out o' Crofield have suggested that it has at all exaggerated the
possible career of its boy and girl actors. If any others have
silently agreed with them, it may be worth while to say that the
pictures of places and the doings of older and younger people are
pretty accurately historical. The story and the writing of it were
suggested in a conversation with an energetic American boy who was
crowded out of his own village into a career which led to something
much more surprising than a profitable junior partnership.

W. O. S.

NEW YORK, 1893.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I.--THE BLACKSMITH'S BOY
II.--THE FISH WERE THERE
III.--I AM ONLY A GIRL
IV.--CAPTAIN MARY
V.--JACK OGDEN'S RIDE
VI.--OUT INTO THE WORLD
VII.--MARY AND THE _EAGLE_
VIII.--CAUGHT FOR A BURGLAR
IX.--NEARER THE CITY
X.--THE STATE-HOUSE AND THE STEAMBOAT
XI.--DOWN THE HUDSON
XII.--IN A NEW WORLD
XIII.--A WONDERFUL SUNDAY
XIV.--FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
XV.--NO BOY WANTED
XVI.--JACK'S FAMINE
XVII.--JACK-AT-ALL-TRADES
XVIII.--THE DRUMMER BOY
XIX.--COMPLETE SUCCESS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Sorrel Mare was tugging hard at the Rein . . . _Frontispiece_

The Runaway

Along the Water's Edge

Fighting the Fire

"Run for Home"

He listened in silence

"There won't be any _Eagle_ this week"

Just out

"I'm the Editor, sir"

"There," said Mr. Murdoch, "jump