Tom Thatcher's Fortune
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Excerpt from Tom Thatcher's FortuneIs supper ready, mother? I'm as hungry as a bear!"The speaker was a sturdy boy of sixteen, with bright eyes, and a smiling sun-browned face. His shirt sleeves were rolled up displaying a pair of muscular arms. His hands were brown and soiled with labor. It was clear that he was no white-handed young aristocrat. His clothes alone would have shown that. They were of coarse cloth, made without any special regard to the prevailing fashion.Tom Thatcher, for this was his name, had just come home from the shoe manufactory, where he was employed ten hours a day in pe...
Chapters (324)
- TOM THATCHER’S FORTUNE
- CHAPTER I. AN OLD LETTER.
- CHAPTER II. THE YOUNG RIVALS.
- CHAPTER III. THE RACE ON ROUND POND.
- CHAPTER IV. A FALSE FRIEND.
- CHAPTER V. DARIUS DARKE.
- CHAPTER VI. ENDS IN A FIRE.
- CHAPTER VII. THE MIDNIGHT FIRE.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE BARN LOFT.
- CHAPTER IX. AN UNEXPECTED CHARGE.
- CHAPTER X. IN SEARCH OF EMPLOYMENT.
- CHAPTER XI. A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE.
- CHAPTER XII. TOM’S JOURNEY.
- CHAPTER XIII. A CHEAP OVERCOAT.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE TRAMP TRANSFORMED.
- CHAPTER XV. THE TRAGEDY AT ROCKY GULCH.
- CHAPTER XVI. TOM’S VISIT TO PEARL STREET.
- CHAPTER XVII. TOM GAINS A VICTORY.
- CHAPTER XVIII. DO THE DEAD LIVE?
- CHAPTER XIX. TOM STARTS ON HIS JOURNEY.
- CHAPTER XX. A HOTEL ACQUAINTANCE.
- CHAPTER XXI. TOM’S NEW EMPLOYER.
- CHAPTER XXII. A ROUGH DIAMOND.
- CHAPTER XXIII. PETER BRUSH, THE HUNTER.
- CHAPTER XXIV. MR. BURNETT BEATS A RETREAT.
- CHAPTER XXV. A SOLITARY WALK.
- CHAPTER XXVI. PERCY BURNETT UNMASKS.
- CHAPTER XXVII. A FRIEND IN NEED.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. HOW PETER BRUSH CAME TO THE RESCUE.
- CHAPTER XXIX. THE PACIFIC TRAIL.
- CHAPTER XXX. THE MAN WITHOUT A SCALP.
- CHAPTER XXXI. TWO NEW COMRADES.
- CHAPTER XXXII. A STARTLING SIGHT.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. TAKEN CAPTIVE.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. TWO POWWOWS.
- CHAPTER XXXV. HOW TOM PASSED THE NIGHT.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. TOM’S DEADLY PERIL.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. THE INDIANS ADOPT TOM.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. THREE MONTHS IN CAPTIVITY.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. THE CABIN AT ROCKY GULCH.
- CHAPTER XL. TOM FINDS HIMSELF RICH.
- CHAPTER XLI. TOM AND THE GRIZZLY.
- CHAPTER XLII. A STARTLING DISCLOSURE.
- CHAPTER XLIII. TOM COMES INTO A FORTUNE.
- CHAPTER XLIV. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
- CHAPTER XLV. HOW THINGS WENT ON AT HOME.
- CHAPTER XLVI. MRS. THATCHER LOSES HER NEW HOME.
- CHAPTER XLVII. A DOUBLE SURPRISE.
- CHAPTER XLVIII. RETRIBUTION OVERTAKES JOHN SIMPSON.
- HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
- THAT BELL!
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