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Title: The Erie Train Boy

Author: Horatio Alger

Release Date: July 16, 2008 [EBook #26075]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Gary Sandino, from a scanned UC library book
kindly provided by the Internet Archive (www.archive.org.)

If this is borrowed by a friend
Right welcome shall he be
To read, to study, not to lend
But to return to me.
Not that imparted knowledge doth
Diminish learning's store
But books I find if often lent
Return to me no more.

The

Erie Train Boy

HORATIO ALGER,

JR.

Copyright, 1891,

UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY

(All Rights Reserved)

The Erie Train Boy

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. On the Erie Road 5

II. A Fair Exchange 11

III. Fred's Rich Relation 14

IV. Zebulon Mack 20

V. An Adventure on the Train 24

VI. Mr. Bascomb's Peril 30

VII. Ferdinand Morris 85

VIII. Mr. Bascomb's sad Plight 41

IX. A Long Trip 46

X. What Took Place in No. 21 51

XI. Fred Falls under a Terrible Suspicion 56

XII. Fred is a Prisoner 62

XIII. The Hotel Clerk's Mistake 67

XIV. The Missing Valise 73

XV. Mr. Palmer Walks into a Trap 78

XVI. Palmer's Malice 83

XVII. Two Young Lady Passengers at Odds 88

XVIII. Unsatisfactory Relations 94

XIX. Ruth Patton Calls on Mr. Ferguson 99

XX. A Friend in Need 104

XXI. Luella's Painful Discovery 109

XXII. Miss Ferguson Writes a Note 115

XXIII. Another Railroad Adventure 126

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