Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks. Alger Horatio Jr.

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      "Twenty dollars is a good deal of money," said Dick, appearing to hesitate.

      "You'll get it back, and a good deal more," said the stranger, persuasively.

      "I don't know but I shall. What would you do, Frank?"

      "I don't know but I would," said Frank, "if you've got the money."

      He was not a little surprised to think that Dick had so much by him.

      "I don't know but I will," said Dick, after some irresolution. "I guess I won't lose much."

      "You can't lose anything," said the stranger briskly. "Only be quick, for I must be on my way to the cars. I am afraid I shall miss them now."

      Dick pulled out a bill from his pocket, and handed it to the stranger, receiving the pocket-book in return. At that moment a policeman turned the corner, and the stranger, hurriedly thrusting the bill into his pocket, without looking at it, made off with rapid steps.

      "What is there in the pocket-book, Dick?" asked Frank in some excitement. "I hope there's enough to pay you for the money you gave him."

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      A fact.

      2

      Mr. Stewart's Tenth Street store was not open at the time Dick spoke.

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      Since destroyed by fire, and rebuilt farther up Broadway,

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A fact.

2

Mr. Stewart's Tenth Street store was not open at the time Dick spoke.

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Since destroyed by fire, and rebuilt farther up Broadway, and again burned down in February.

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Now the office of the Merchants' Union Express Company.

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Now not far from one hundred thousand.

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