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 Mason's Triumph; Sam's Chance; The
Telegraph Boy; The Young Adventurer; The Young Outlaw; The Young
Salesman, and Luke Walton. 

[Illustration: It is practical.  I will pay one thousand dollars a year
for ten years for a half interest in the invention.] 

CHAPTER I