Richard Hunter, the former bootblack of Ragged Dick, has risen to respectability in New York. Now he takes in Mark Manning, a frail orphan who sells matches on the streets and is mistreated by the woman who controls him, and helps him toward education, work and a better life.
The third of Alger’s Ragged Dick series, a rags-to-respectability tale of old New York. Download the free EPUB.