Horatio Alger

Fame and Fortune Horatio Alger

Publisher Marketing: Well, Fosdick, this is a little better than our old room in Mott Street, said Richard Hunter, looking complacently about him. You're right, Dick, said his friend. This carpet's rather nicer than the ragged one Mrs. Mooney supplied us with. The beds are neat and comfortable, and I feel better satisfied, even if we do have to pay twice as much for it. The room which yielded so much satisfaction to the two boys was on the fourth floor of a boarding-house in Bleecker Street. No doubt many of my young readers, who are accustomed to elegant homes, would think it very plain; but neither Richard nor his friend had been used to anything as good. They had been thrown upon their own exertions at an early age, and had a hard battle to fight with poverty and ignorance.