~The Young Boatman~
BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.
369 Pages Illustrated
Cloth, $1.25
This is an interesting story of a boy who is obliged to supporthimself and his mother by rowing passengers across the Kennebec River.To add to his trials, his intemperate stepfather, after serving a termof imprisonment, returns home and endeavors to compel the boy to payover his small earnings to him. This the boy, who was appropriatelynicknamed Grit, refuses to do, and after a struggle the stepfatherretires from the conflict and returns to his thieving habits.
Shortly after Grit discovers a conspiracy to rob the bank and promptlycommunicates his knowledge to the president, who succeeds infrustrating the plans of the robbers and secures their arrest.
Grit's cheerful manner and kindly good nature, coupled with the moststerling honesty, cause him to be held in high esteem by all who knowhim. His manly courage and self-reliance are often sorely tested, buthis indomitable pluck transmutes calamity into success.
The book is full of incident and adventure of just the right sort tohold the attention of any bright boy.
Sold by all booksellers, or sent, prepaid, upon receipt of price.
~The Penn Publishing Company~
~1020 Arch Street, Philadelphia~
Among the Esquimaux; or, Adventures under the Arctic Circle Page 35