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Nothing to Do: A Tilt at Our Best Society

by Horatio Alger Jr.

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This volume includes two works by Horatio "Struggling Upward," a rags-to-riches tale, and the long poem "Nothing To Do."

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The cover image was restored by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

NOTHING TO DO.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JAMES FRENCH & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED BY HOBART & ROBBINS, New England Type and Stereotype Foundery, BOSTON.

To

WILLIAM A. BUTLER, Esq., AUTHOR OF "NOTHING TO WEAR," This Poem IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

Nothing to Do.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Otherwise, the author's original spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been left intact.

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