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RAGGED DICK by HORATIO ALGER JR.

Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press [C.E.K.]
Posted to Wiretap in August 1993, as ragged.txt.

Italics are represented as _italics_.

This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.


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From the book "Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward", published
by Penguin Books, 1985. Ragged Dick was first published in the 
United States by A.K. Loring, 1868. The Introduction written
by Carl Bode is not included in this etext, and is (c)1985 by 
Viking Penguin, Inc., all rights reserved. The text itself
is not copyright, and this etext is public domain.


                         RAGGED DICK
                             OR
                   STREET LIFE IN NEW YORK



CHAPTER I


RAGGED DICK IS INTRODUCED TO THE READER


"WAKE up there, youngster," said a rough voice.

Ragged Dick opened his eyes slowly, and stared stupidly in
the face of the speaker, but did not offer to get up.

"Wake up, you young vagabond!" said the man a little impatiently;
"I suppose you'd lay there al . . .