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    The Factory Boy
    The Factory Boy
    The Factory Boy
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    The Factory Boy

    By Madeline Leslie

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Factory Boy - Madeline Leslie

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Factory Boy, by Madeline Leslie

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      Title: The Factory Boy

      Author: Madeline Leslie

      Release Date: August 3, 2013 [EBook #43390]

      Language: English

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      Aunt Hattie's Library

      for Girls.

      SERIES I.

      Aunt Hattie's Library

      for Boys.

      SERIES II.

      The Factory Boy.

      BY AUNT HATTIE,

      AUTHOR OF THE BROOKSIDE SERIES, ETC.

      Trust in the Lord and do good, . . . and verily thou shalt be fed.

      David.

      BOSTON:

      PUBLISHED BY HENRY A. YOUNG & CO.,

      No. 24 cornhill.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

      REV. A. R. BAKER,

      In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of

      Massachusetts.

      Rockwell & Rollins, Stereotypers,

      122 Washington Street.

      To

      NELLIE, ROLAND COTTON, ANNIE, AND FULLER APPLETON,

      CHILDREN OF MY BELOVED NEPHEW,

      The Rev. JOHN COTTON SMITH, D.D.,

      THESE SMALL VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

      WITH THE EARNEST PRAYER

      THAT THEIR LIVES MAY PROVE THEM TO BE LAMBS IN THE FOLD

      OF THE GREAT AND GOOD

      Shepherd of Israel.

      [viii]

      [ix]

      CONTENTS.

      The Factory Boy.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE SILVER DOLLAR.

      AKE a cup of porridge, Johnny, dear. It's too cold to go to work without something warm."

      Johnny looked in the bowl which stood on the hearth, near a few smouldering brands, and shook his head as he answered,—I'm not very hungry, mother. There's only enough for you and Ella. Then without another word he hurried away, for the factory bell was ringing; and he knew that he must not be late.

      Poor little Johnny! How he shivered as he shuffled along that frosty December morning! He could not pick up his feet,

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