Struggling Upward
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Alger, Horatio, Jr.
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full text: STRUGGLING UPWARD by HORATIO ALGER JR. Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press [C.E.K.] Posted to Wiretap in August 1993, as strugup.txt. Italics are represented as _italics_. This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. ---- From the book "Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward", published by Penguin Books, 1985. Ragged Dick was first published in the United States by A.K. Loring, 1868. The Introduction written by Carl Bode is not included in this etext, and is (c)1985 by Viking Penguin, Inc., all rights reserved. The text itself is not copyright, and this etext is public domain. STRUGGLING UPWARD CHAPTER I THE WATERBURY WATCH One Saturday afternoon in January a lively and animated group of boys were gathered on the western side of a large pond in the village of Groveton. Prominent among them was a tall, pleasant-looking young man of twenty-two, the teacher of the Center Grammar School, Frederic Hooper, A.B., a recent graduate of Yale College. Evidently there was something of importance on foot. What it was may be learned from the words of the teacher. "Now, boys," he said, holding in his hand a Waterbury watch, of neat pattern, "I offer this watch as a prize to the boy who will skate across the pond and back in the least time. You will all start together, at a given signal, and make your way to the mark which I have placed at the western end of the lake, skate around it, and return to this point. Do you fully understand?" "Yes, sir!" exclaimed the boys, unanimously. Before proceeding, it may be well to refer more particularly to some of the boys who were to engage in the contest. First, in his own estimation, came Randolph Duncan, son of Prince Duncan, president of the Groveton Bank, and a prominent town official. Prince Duncan was supposed to be a rich man, and lived in a style quite beyond that of his neighbors. Randolph was his only son, a boy of sixteen, and felt that in social position and blue blood he was without a peer in the village. He was a tall, athletic boy, and dispose…