Tom Temple's Career

By HORATIO ALGER, Jr.
Author of “Tom Thatcher’s Fortune,”
“Tom Turner’s Legacy,” “The Train Boy,”
“Ben Bruce,” Etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1888. By A. L. BURT.
TOM TEMPLE’S CAREER.
By Horatio Alger, Jr.
TOM TEMPLE’S CAREER.
ON THE main street, in the town of Plympton, stood a two-story house, with a narrow lawn in front. It had a stiff, staid look of decorum, as if no children were ever allowed to create disorder within its precincts, or interfere with its settled regularity. It appeared to be a place of business as well as a residence, for there was a thin plate on one side of the front door, bearing the name of
NATHAN MIDDLETON,