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CROWDED OUT O' CROFIELD

OR

THE BOY WHO MADE HIS WAY

BY

WILLIAM O. STODDARD

SIXTH EDITION

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1897

COPYRIGHT, 1890,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

PREFACE.

Only a few of the kindly reviewers of the earlier editions of CrowdedOut o' Crofield have suggested that it has at all exaggerated thepossible career of its boy and girl actors. If any others havesilently agreed with them, it may be worth while to say that thepictures of places and the doings of older and younger people arepretty accurately historical. The story and the writing of it weresuggested in a conversation with an energetic American boy who wascrowded out of his own village into a career which led to somethingmuch more surprising than a profitable junior partnership.

W. O. S.
NEW YORK, 1893.

CONTENTS.