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Mark the Match Boy; or, Richard Hunter's Ward
Horatio, Jr. Alger
Richard Hunter, once Ragged Dick, now respectable, takes a ward: Mark, a frail little match boy with a grandfather's debts hanging over him. Alger passes the torch from his most famous hero to his smallest one, street corner to counting room. The New York bootblack world, one rung further up. Strike a light for Mark. Please note: this is the text of the story only. It has no pictures, so it is meant for a grown-up to read aloud rather than for a child to read alone. The illustrated experience of this story is the audiobook edition on Littletone.
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33 chapters
- 1MARK, THE MATCH BOY;
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CHAPTER I.
- 4CHAPTER II.
- 5CHAPTER III.
- 6CHAPTER IV.
- 7CHAPTER V.
- 8CHAPTER VI.
- 9CHAPTER VII.
- 10CHAPTER VIII.
- 11CHAPTER IX.
- 12CHAPTER X.
- 13CHAPTER XI.
- 14CHAPTER XII.
- 15CHAPTER XIII.
- 16CHAPTER XIV.
- 17CHAPTER XV.
- 18CHAPTER XVI.
+ 15 more. The full contents open with the book.
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