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    From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience

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      Produced by David Edwards, Mary Meehan and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Thisfile was produced from scans of public domain materialproduced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.)

      FROM FARM TO FORTUNE

      _Or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience_

      BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.

      AUTHOR OF "LOST AT SEA," "NELSON THE NEWSBOY," "OUT FOR BUSINESS," "THEYOUNG BOOK AGENT," "RAGGED DICK SERIES," ETC.

      GROSSET & DUNLAPPUBLISHERS : NEW YORKCopyright, 1905

      BY STITT PUBLISHING COMPANY

      HE FELT SOMEBODY CATCH HIM BY THE ARM, AND TURNING HEBEHELD NAT.]

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      I. NAT ON THE FARM

      II. A QUARREL IN THE BARNYARD

      III. NAT LEAVES THE FARM

      IV. ABNER BALBERRY'S DISCOVERY

      V. THE SALE OF A COW

      VI. NAT ON LAKE ERIE

      VII. AN ADVENTURE AT NIAGARA FALLS

      VIII. A FRESH START IN LIFE

      IX. FIRST DAYS IN NEW YORK

      X. OUT OF WORK ONCE MORE

      XI. WHAT A HUNDRED DOLLARS DID

      XII. ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

      XIII. A SWINDLE EXPOSED

      XIV. NAT OBTAINS ANOTHER SITUATION

      XV. ABNER AND THE WIDOW GUFF

      XVI. ABNER VISITS NEW YORK

      XVII. A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

      XVIII. NAT MEETS HIS UNCLE

      XIX. NAT BECOMES A PRIVATE CLERK

      XX. RUFUS CAMERON'S BOLD MOVE

      XXI. A MISSING DOCUMENT OF VALUE

      XXII. AT THE ELEVATED STATION

      XXIII. TOM NOLAN'S CONFESSION

      XXIV. THE PAPERS IN THE TRUNK

      XXV. BACK TO THE CITY

      XXVI. FRED GIVES UP CITY LIFE

      XXVII. A SCENE AT THE HOTEL

      XXVIII. A SUDDEN PROPOSAL

      XXIX. THE CAPTURE OF NICK SMITHERS

      XXX. NAT COMES INTO HIS OWN

      PREFACE

      Nat Nason was a poor country boy with a strong desire to better hiscondition. Life on the farm was unusually hard for him, and after aquarrel with his miserly uncle, with whom he resided, he resolved tostrike out for himself.

      Nat was poor and it was a struggle to reach the great city, where theyouth trusted that fame and fortune awaited him.

      The boy obtained, by accident, a fair sum of money and with this heresolved to go into a business of some kind. But a sharper quicklyrelieved him of his wealth, and opened Nat's eyes to the fact that hewas not as shrewd as he had thought himself to be.

      The lesson proved a valuable one, and from that moment the country boydid his best to not alone win success but to deserve it. He worked hard,often in the midst of great difficulties, and what the outcome of hisstruggle was, will be found in the pages which follow.

      In penning this tale the author has endeavored to show the differencebetween life in a quiet country place and in a great bustling city, andespecially as that difference shows itself to the eyes of a country boy.Many country lads imagine that to go to the city and win success thereis easy; perhaps they will not think it so easy after they have read ofwhat happened to Nat Nason. More than once, in spite of his grit andcourage, Nat came close to making a complete failure of what he hadstarted out to do, and his success in the end was perhaps after all notas great as he had anticipated when first striking out.

      FROM FARM TO FORTUNE

     
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