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A lively collection of short dialogues, originally composed for juvenile magazines and exhibitions, presenting domestic comedies and moral sketches suitable for amateur performance. Scenes follow everyday characters—from a country youth determined to seek his fortune in the city to neighbors and relatives engaged in quarrels, bargains, and social posturing—and examine themes of ambition, thrift, pretension, and practical wisdom. The pieces favor plainspoken rural voices, light humor, and didactic conclusions aimed at entertaining and instructing young readers and performers.

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Title: Seeking his fortune, and other dialogues

Author: Jr. Horatio Alger

O. Augusta Cheney

Release date: February 21, 2021 [eBook #64607]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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SEEKING HIS FORTUNE,
AND
OTHER DIALOGUES.

BY
HORATIO ALGER, Jr.,
AND
O. AUGUSTA CHENEY.

LORING, Publisher,
Cor. Washington and Bromfield Streets,
BOSTON.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
A. K. LORING,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

To
MY FATHER AND MOTHER,
This Volume
IS DEDICATED, BY THEIR AFFECTIONATE DAUGHTER,
O. AUGUSTA CHENEY.