Author: Alger Horatio Title: PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE Source: http://promo.net/pg/_authors/alger_horatio_.html#p Subject: FICTION (813)
Paul Prescott's Charge ALGER SERIES FOR BOYS. UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME. BY HORATIO ALGER, JR. TO The Boys WHOSE MEMORY GOES BACK WITH ME TO THE BOARDING SCHOOL AT POTOWOME THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE --"PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE" is presented to the public as the second volume of the Campaign Series. Though wholly unlike the first volume, it is written in furtherance of the same main idea, that every boys life is a campaign, more or less difficult, in which success depends upon integrity and a steadfast adherence to duty. How Paul Prescott gained strength by battling with adverse circumstances, and, under all discouragements, kept steadily before him the charge which he received from his dying father, is fully told; and the author will be glad if the record shall prove an incentive and an encouragement to those boys who may have a similar campaign before them. PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE. I. SQUIRE NEWCOME. "HANNAH!" The speaker was a tall, pompous-looking man, whose age appeared to verge close upon fifty. He was sitting bolt upright in a highbacked chair, and looked as if it would be quite impossible to deviate from his position of unbending rigidity. Squire Benjamin Newcome, as he was called, in the right of his position as Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Selectmen, and wealthiest resident of Wrenville, was a man of rule and measure. He was measured in his walk, measured in

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