Bound to Rise

Bound to Rise

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Title: Bound to Rise
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Glenn Wilson and his class.

BOUND TO RISE
Or
UP THE LADDER
BY Horatio Alger, Jr.
AUTHOR OF
"PAUL, THE. PEDDLER," "PHIL, THE FIDDLER," "STRIVE AND
SUCCEED," "HERRERT CARTER'S LEGACY," "JACK'S WARD,"
"SHIFTING FOR HIMSELF," ETC.

BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Horatio Alger, Jr., an author who lived among and for boys and himself
remained a boy in heart and association till death, was born at Revere,
Mass., January 18, 1884. He was the son of a clergyman; was
graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at its Divinity School in
1860; and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Brewster, Mass., in
1862-66. In the latter year he settled in New York and began drawing

public attention to the condition and needs of street boys. He mingled
with them, gained their confidence, showed a personal concern in their
affairs, and stimulated them to honest and useful living. With his first
story he won the hearts of all red-blooded boys every-where, and of the
seventy or more that followed over a million copies were sold during
the author's lifetime.
In his later life he was in appearance a short, stout, bald-headed man,
with cordial manners and whimsical views of things that amused all
who met him. He died at Natick, Mass., July 18, 1899.
Mr. Alger's stories are as popular now as when first published, because
they treat of real live boys who were always up and about--just like the
boys found everywhere to-day. They are pure in tone and inspiring in
influence, and many reforms in the juvenile life of New York may be
traced to them. Among the best known are:
Strong and Steady; Strive and Succeed; Try and Trust: Bound to Rise;
Risen from the Ranks; Herbert Carter's Legacy; Brave and Bold; Jack's
Ward; Shifting for Himself; Wait and Hope; Paul the Peddler; Phil the
Fiddler: Slow and Sure: Julius the Street Boy; Tom the Bootblack;
Struggling Upward; Facing the World; The Cash Boy; Making His
Way; Tony the Tramp; Joe's Luck; Do and Dare: Only an Irish Boy;
Sink or Swim; A Cousin's Conspiracy; Andy Gordon; Bob Burton;
Harry Vane; Hector's Inheritance; Mark Manson's Triumph; Sam's
Chance; The Telegraph Boy; The Young Adventurer; The Young
Outlaw; The Young Salesman, and Luke Walton..
CHAPTER I

"Sit up to the table, children, breakfast's ready."
The speaker was a woman of middle age, not good-looking in the
ordinary acceptation of the term, but nevertheless she looked good. She
was dressed with extreme plainness, in a cheap calico; but though
cheap, the dress was neat. The children she addressed were six in

number, varying in age from twelve to four. The oldest, Harry, the hero
of the present story, was a broad-shouldered, sturdy boy, with a frank,
open face, resolute, though good-natured.
"Father isn't here," said Fanny, the second child.
"He'll be in directly. He went to the store, and he may stop as he comes
back to milk."
The table was set in the center of the room, covered with a coarse
tablecloth. The breakfast provided was hardly of a kind to tempt an
epicure. There was a loaf of bread cut into slices, and a dish of boiled
potatoes. There was no butter and no meat, for the family were very
poor.
The children sat up to the table and began to eat. They were blessed
with good appetites, and did not grumble, as the majority of my readers
would have done, at the scanty fare. They had not been accustomed to