THE YOUNG OUTLAW;
Or,
Adrift in the Streets.
by
HORATIO ALGER, JR.,
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Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Young Outlaw by Horatio Alger
- 2: Series Title Illustration THE YOUNG OUTLAW
- 3: Said the deacon for he was a deacon
- 4: What'll you bet I can't tell your name
- 5: Sam found himself a candidate for the poorhouse
- 6: Your father was a misguided man
- 7: Exclaimed the deacon with energy
- 8: Deacon Hopkins thought it was time to interfere
- 9: He began to read the catechism
- 10: But the deacon was not so fortunate
- 11: Now the deacon was broad awake
- 12: The deacon stood at the door listening
- 13: Hopkins proceeded to the door of Sam's bed chamber
- 14: Sam combines business with pleasure
- 15: Hopkins called sharply up the attic stairs
- 16: It'll be a sight of work to hoe all them potatoes
- 17: I'm to work for Deacon Hopkins
- 18: The deacon had corns on that foot
- 19: Throwing down the hoe in the furrow
- 20: Some nice dime novel like 'The Demon of the Danube
- 21: This was even worse than wormwood tea
- 22: I can taste that wormwood jist as plain
- 23: Hopkins probably would not insist
- 24: You'd better stay with the deacon
- 25: Though the deacon supplied him with board
- 26: Hopkins was at the table knitting
- 27: And found that it was unlocked
- 28: He wouldn't go to the poorhouse
- 29: And Sam hurried off eating crackers as he walked
- 30: Aint your folks afeared to have you go alone
- 31: Sam seized the bandbox once more
- 32: So Sam walked out of the depot
- 33: Have you been long blackin' boots
- 34: I aint had anything since breakfast
- 35: Sam walked slowly out of the hotel
- 36: Sam cheerfully followed his conductor
- 37: Who was not used to crowded tenement houses
- 38: I'll go out and get some whiskey
- 39: And Sam undressed and got into bed
- 40: Still Sam did not feel for his money
- 41: Let me see here's buckwheat cakes
- 42: Fancy his impudence in ordering a fifty cent breakfast
- 43: Sam staggered from the force of the bouncing
- 44: Inquired the black whiskered man
- 45: Sam did feel some compunction now
- 46: Sam meets brown and is unhappy
- 47: Said the Illinois man apologetically
- 48: Clarence Brown started as he saw who addressed him
- 49: Sam did not furnish particulars
- 50: Sam lay down on the bench for some time
- 51: Aint you afraid of taking cold
- 52: They don't have theatres in the country
- 53: And that is where Tim had the advantage
- 54: And hack drivers already in waiting
- 55: Clara seemed disposed to be sociable
- 56: By this time they had reached Broadway
- 57: I don't want no spalpeens like you round my apple stand
- 58: He and Tim were constant companions
- 59: A Broadway stage was passing at the time
- 60: Sam gave a glance into the office
- 61: And distribute these circulars
- 62: By and by a countryman came along
- 63: Having disposed of his circulars
- 64: And the mortified dandy reddened with mortification
- 65: So Sam continued distributing his circulars
- 66: Sam followed the doctor to his office
- 67: Sam acquitted himself very well
- 68: Sam was almost equally frightened
- 69: Sam was abashed by the result of his experiment
- 70: Jim fastened his little black eyes on Sam cunningly
- 71: They had reached the Brooklyn side
- 72: Why didn't you do it in the billiard saloon
- 73: With Jim's assistance Sam made his way to Fulton Ferry
- 74: Did you know there was money in it
- 75: Graham did not doubt the story of his young assistant
- 76: Sam had decided objections to this
- 77: Was this in Brooklyn or New York
- 78: He accompanied Sam to the office
- 79: On such a day the Newsboys Lodge is a great resource
- 80: For it was Pipkin's restaurant
- 81: Sam read one of the circulars rapidly
- 82: What attracted him to Sam is uncertain
- 83: Dalton saw that Sam was ragged
