THE BEST OF THE
Famous Alger Stories for Boys
A new edition, five by seven inches, from new plates, withnew illustrations. Bound in cloth, and stamped in colors onthe front cover in several designs.
DISTINCTIVELY GOOD LOOKING VOLUMES.THE LOWEST PRICED CLOTH BOUND EDITIONAND BETTER IN MANY WAYS THANSOME OF THE HIGHER PRICED EDITIONS
More Alger Books are sold and they are more popular thanany other line of Boys’ Books.Alger stands on the boy’s level, appeals to his heart, andwhat his heroes suggest or achieve is in the line of advancementto high standards.Alger’s Books go to the right spot every time. His charactersare living boys who do things.Alger could look on life as boys do, and entered into theirplans, hopes, and aspirations as they do.
The episodes are graphic, exciting, realistic. The tendencyof Alger stories is to the formation of an honorable, manlycharacter. They convey lessons of pluck, perseverance, andindependence.
Their high moral character, clean, manly tone, and the wholesomelessons they teach without being goody-goody, make AlgerBooks as acceptable to the parents as to the boys.
THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY
147 Fourth Avenue New York, N. Y.
“Tony the Tramp, now the Hon. Anthony
Middleton of Middleton Hall.”
TONY THE TRAMP
OR
RIGHT IS MIGHT
BY
HORATIO ALGER, Jr.
AUTHOR OF
“ONLY AN IRISH BOY,” “SLOW AND SURE,” “FACING THE WORLD,”
“JULIUS THE STREET BOY,” “TOM THE BOOTBLACK,”
“STRUGGLING UPWARD,” “BOUND TO RISE,”
“BRAVE AND BOLD,” ETC.
NEW YORK
THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY
1909
TONY THE TRAMP
CHAPTER I
TWO TRAMPS
A man and a boy were ascending a steep street in acountry town in eastern New York. The man was talland dark-complexioned, with a sinister look which of itselfexcited distrust. He wore a slouch hat, which, comingdown over his forehead, nearly concealed from view his low,receding brow. A pair of black, piercing eyes looked outfrom beneath the brim. The first impression producedupon those who met him was that he was of gypsy blood,and the impression was a correct one. Where he was bornno one seemed to know; perhaps he did not himself know,for all his life he had been a wanderer, but English wa