A Boy's Fortune; Or, The Strange Adventures of Ben BakerAlger, Horatio, Jr.
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A Boy's Fortune; Or, The Strange Adventures of Ben Baker
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction; Fortune -- Juvenile fiction
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Transcriber's note:
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and
non-hyphenated variants. All have been retained. This book also
contains dialect and vernacular comversation.
Obvious punctuation errors were fixed.
Other printing errors, which were not detected during the revision
of the printing process of the original book, have been corrected.
The following provides the detail of those corrections:
In Page 23 the expression "by curiosity" was changed to "my
curiosity".
In Page 43 in the expression "sauntered out out", "out" was removed
once from the text.
In Page 52 "In his attempt to obtained" was changed to "In his
attempt to obtain".
In Page 105 the expression "was an expect" was changed to "was an
expert".
In Page 176 the expression "for work as a seamtress" was changed to
"for work as a seamstress".
In Page 179 "I shall insist in" was changed to "I shall insist on".
In Page 238 the expression "had prevented" was changed to "had
prevented him".
In Page 239 the expression "to have strong affections" was changed
to "to have as strong affections".
In Page 310 the expression "was dumfounded by receiving" was changed
to "was dumbfounded by receiving".
In Page 316 the expression "but he dosen't" was changed to "but he
doesn't".
In Page 321 "In behalf of my young ward" was changed to "On behalf
of my young ward".
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