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Mark the Match Boy — Horatio Alger Jr.
Mark the Match Boy — Horatio Alger Jr.
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“Hiram Bates,” answered Fosdick, in some surprise. “What made you think of him?”
“I thought I remembered the name. He moved out West, didn’t he?”
“So I heard at the time.”
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Mark Manton is a small, thinly dressed match boy who must hand over his day's money to Mother Watson, a drunken woman who has charge of him and beats him when he comes home with too little. Richard Hunter, once Ragged Dick and now a rising young clerk, finds Mark collapsed in the street, takes him home and makes him his ward. Mark gets a place in a bookstore, where he comes under suspicion when money goes missing. Meanwhile Dick is searching New York for the lost grandson of a wealthy Milwaukee man, Mr. Bates.
Published in 1869, Mark the Match Boy is the third book of the Ragged Dick Series. It brings back Dick, Fosdick, Micky Maguire and Roswell Crawford from the earlier books.
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“Fosdick,” said Richard Hunter, “what was the name of that man who owed your father two thousand dollars, which he never paid him?”
“Hiram Bates,” answered Fosdick, in some surprise. “What made you think of him?”
“I thought I remembered the name. He moved out West, didn’t he?”
“So I heard at the time.”
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