The Erie Train Boy
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.
CONTENTS
Papers, magazines, all the popular novels! Can't I sell you something this morning?
Joshua Bascom turned as the train boy addressed him, and revealed an honest, sunburned face, lighted up with pleasurable excitement, for he was a farmer's son and was making his first visit to the city of New York.
I ain't much on story readin', he said, I tried to read a story book once, but I couldn't seem to get interested in it.
What was the name of it? asked Fred, the train boy, smiling.
It was the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' or some such name. It had pictures into it. Aunt Nancy give it to dad for a birthday present once.
I have heard of it.
It was a mighty queer book. I couldn't make head nor tail on't.
All books are not like that.
Jr. Horatio Alger
THE ERIE TRAIN BOY
1891
THE ERIE TRAIN BOY
CHAPTER I. — ON THE ERIE ROAD.
CHAPTER II. — A FAIR EXCHANGE.
CHAPTER III. — FRED'S RICH RELATION.
CHAPTER IV. — ZEBULON MACK.
CHAPTER V. — AN ADVENTURE ON THE TRAIN.
CHAPTER VI. — MR. BASCOM'S PERIL.
CHAPTER VII. — FERDINAND MORRIS.
CHAPTER VIII. — MR. BASCOM'S SAD PLIGHT.
CHAPTER IX. — A LONG TRIP.
DEAR MOTHER,
THE LYNCH HOUSE.
CHAPTER X. — WHAT TOOK PLACE IN NO. 21.
CHAPTER XI. — FRED FALLS UNDER A TERRIBLE SUSPICION.
CHAPTER XII. — FRED AS A PRISONER.
CHAPTER XIII. — THE HOTEL CLERK'S MISTAKE.
"F. GRANT PALMER, CHICAGO."
CHAPTER XIV. — THE MISSING VALISE.
ELMIRA, SUNDAY.
PHILO CARVER.
CHAPTER XV. — MR. PALMER WALKS INTO A TRAP.
F. GRANT PALMER.
CHAPTER XVI. — PALMER'S MALICE.
CHAPTER XVII. — TWO YOUNG LADY PASSENGERS AT ODDS.
CHAPTER XVIII. — UNSATISFACTORY RELATIONS.
CHAPTER XIX. — RUTH PATTON CALLS ON MR. FERGUSON.
CHAPTER XX. — A FRIEND IN NEED.
CHAPTER XXI. — LUELLA'S PAINFUL DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER XXII. — MISS FERGUSON WRITES A NOTE.
CHAPTER XXIII. — ANOTHER RAILROAD ADVENTURE.
CHAPTER XXIV. — FRED'S GOOD LUCK.
CHAPTER XXV. — ROSE WAINWRIGHT'S PARTY.
CHAPTER XXVI. — FRED BECOMES A NEWSPAPER HERO.
CHAPTER XXVII. — A CONFIDENTIAL MISSION.
MR. WAINWRIGHT,
CHAPTER XXVIII. — ST. VICTOR.
CHAPTER XXIX. — FRED TAKES THE FIRST STEP.
CHAPTER XXX. — A HUNTING EXCURSION.
CHAPTER XXXI. — FRED HAS AN UNDERSTANDING WITH SINCLAIR.
CHAPTER XXXII. — FINDING A CLEW.
CHAPTER XXXIII. — SUCCESS!
CHAPTER XXXIV. — BOWMAN'S PANIC.
CHAPTER XXXV. — FRED'S REWARD.
JOHN WAINWRIGHT, ESQ.
$1000.
CHAPTER XXXVI. — A LETTER FROM TOM SLOAN.
TOM SLOAN.
CHAPTER XXXVII. — COUSIN FERGUSON.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. — CONCLUSION.
MY DEAR MISS FERGUSON:
CHARLES STANWOOD.
THE END.