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Out o' Crofield, by William O. Stoddard
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Title: Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way
Author: William O. Stoddard
Release Date: June 16, 2007 [EBook #21846]
Language: English
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CROWDED OUT O' CROFIELD
OR
THE BOY WHO MADE HIS WAY
BY
WILLIAM O. STODDARD
SIXTH EDITION
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1897
COPYRIGHT, 1890,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
PREFACE.
Only a few of the kindly reviewers of the earlier editions of Crowded Out o' Crofield have suggested that it has at all exaggerated the possible career of its boy and girl actors. If any others have silently agreed with them, it may be worth while to say that the pictures of places and the doings of older and younger people are pretty accurately historical. The story and the writing of it were suggested in a conversation with an energetic American boy who was crowded out of his own village into a career which led to something much more surprising than a profitable junior partnership.
W. O. S.
NEW YORK, 1893.