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Tom, The Bootblack, by Horatio Alger
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Title: Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success
Author: Horatio Alger
Release Date: August 18, 2008 [EBook #26355]
Language: English
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TOM, THE BOOTBLACK;
OR,
THE ROAD TO SUCCESS
BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.
Author of "Joe's Luck," "Frank Fowler, the Cash Boy," "Tom Temple's Career," "The Errand Boy," "Tom Turner's Legacy," etc., etc.
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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCING TOM, THE BOOTBLACK.
"How do you feel this morning, Jacob?" asked a boy of fifteen, bending over an old man crouched in the corner of an upper room, in a poor tenement-house, distant less than a quarter of a mile from the New York City Hall.
"Weak, Tom,"