Alger, Horatio

Ragged Dick is a poor boy who rose from rags to riches. He, in turn, becomes the protector of Mark, the match boy.

Ragged Dick is a poor boy who rose from rags to riches. He, in turn, becomes the protector of Mark, the match boy.

Reprints Horatio Alger, Jr.'s 1890 story about Fred Fenton, a young man whose hard work selling sundries on trains to support his mother and siblings living in a New York tenement house are rewarded with good fortune.