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Title: Fame and Fortune
or, The Progress of Richard Hunter

Author: Horatio Alger, Jr.

Release Date: May 28, 2007 [EBook #21632]

Language: English

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RAGGED DICK SERIES

FAME AND FORTUNE;
OR,
THE PROGRESS OF RICHARD HUNTER.

BY HORATIO ALGER, Jr.

AUTHOR OF "RAGGED DICK," "FRANK'S CAMPAIGN," "PAUL PRESCOTT'S
CHARGE," "CHARLIE CODMAN'S CRUISE," ETC.

LORING, Publisher.
Cor. Bromfield and Washington Streets.
BOSTON.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
A. K. LORING, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the
District of Massachusetts.

To
MY FATHER,
FROM WHOM I HAVE NEVER FAILED TO RECEIVE
LITERARY SYMPATHY AND ENCOURAGEMENT,
This Volume
IS DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

"FAME AND FORTUNE," like its predecessor, "Ragged Dick," was
contributed as a serial story to the "Schoolmate," a popular juvenile
magazine published in Boston. The generous commendations of the first
volume by the Press, and by private correspondents whose position makes
their approval of value, have confirmed the author in his purpose to
write a series of stories intended to illustrate the life and experiences
of the friendless and vagrant children to be found in all our cities,
numbering in New York alone over twelve thousand.

In the preparation of the different volumes, the requisite information
will be gathered from personal observation mainly, supplemented,
however, by facts communicated by those who have been brought into
practical relations with the class of children whose lives are
portrayed.

The volumes might readily be made more matter-of-fact, but the author
has sought to depict the inner life and represent the feelings and
emotions of these little waifs of city life, and ho