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Tom Turner's Legacy: The Story of How He Secured It (Classic Reprint) Horatio Alger Jr. No preview available - 2017 |
Tom Turner's Legacy: The Story of How He Secured It (Classic Reprint) Horatio Alger Jr. No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 319 - Luck" is certainly one of his best. Tom the Bootblack; or, The Eoad to Success. By HORATIO ALQER, JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. A bright, enterprising lad was Tom the Bootblack. He was not at all ashamed of his humble calling, though always on the lookout to better himself. The lad started for Cincinnati to look up his heritage.
Page 319 - JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Tom Temple is a bright, self-reliant lad. He leaves Plympton village to seek work in New York, whence he undertakes an Important mission to California. Some of his adventures in the far west are so startling that the reader will scarcely close the book until the last page shall have been reached. The tale is written In Mr. Alger's most fascinating style.