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Title: Ben, the Luggage Boy;
or, Among the Wharves

Author: Horatio Alger

Release Date: March 21, 2009 [EBook #28381]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Title page:
RAGGED DICK SERIES BY HORATIO ALGER JR.
BEN THE LUGGAGE BOY]

BEN, THE LUGGAGE BOY;

OR,

AMONG THE WHARVES.

BY

HORATIO ALGER, JR.,

AUTHOR OF "RAGGED DICK," "FAME AND FORTUNE," "MARK, THE MATCH
BOY," "ROUGH AND READY," "CAMPAIGN SERIES,"
"LUCK AND PLUCK SERIES," ETC.

THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.,

PHILADELPHIA,
CHICAGO, TORONTO.

TO

ANNIE,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

In Tender Remembrance,

BY HER

_AFFECTIONATE BROTHER_

PREFACE.

In presenting "Ben, the Luggage Boy," to the public, as the fifth of the
Ragged Dick Series, the author desires to say that it is in all
essential points a true history; the particulars of the story having
been communicated to him, by Ben himself, nearly two years since. In
particular, the circumstances attending the boy's running away from
home, and adopting the life of a street boy, are in strict accordance
with Ben's own statement. While some of the street incidents are
borrowed from the writer's own observation, those who are really
familiar with the different phases which street life assumes in New
York, will readily recognize their fidelity. The chapter entitled "The
Room under the Wharf" will recall to many readers of the daily journals
a paragraph which made its appearance within two ye