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Adventures of a Telegraph Boy

Jr. Horatio Alger

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The danger was passed, and he began now to feel the tension to which his nerves had been subjected.

“Has anything happened, Paul?” asked a voice. Turning, Paul saw Mrs. Cunningham at the door. She had thrown a wrapper over her, and, attracted by the sound of voices, had entered the library.

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“Has any burglar been here?” she asked, nervously, observing Paul with the revolver in his hand.

“Yes,” answered the telegraph boy; “I have just bidden the gentleman good night.”

By this time Jennie, too, made her appearance. “What is it, mamma? What is it, Paul?” she asked. “Why are you standing there with the revolver in your hand?”

Paul told the story as briefly as the circumstances would admit.

“It was a mercy you were awake!” said Mrs. Cunningham. “Did you hear the noise of the man’s entrance?”

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Community Reviews

My twentieth Horatio Alger book, but he wrote nearly a hundred, so I won’t get through all of them very soon. And there’s no need for that. The plot is always the same: A young boy working on the streets of New York is totally mired in poverty, but by his hard work and integrity he pulls himself up