FROM FARM TO FORTUNE

Or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience

BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.

AUTHOR OF "LOST AT SEA," "NELSON THE NEWSBOY," "OUT FOR BUSINESS," "THE YOUNG BOOK AGENT," "RAGGED DICK SERIES," ETC.

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK
Copyright, 1905

BY STITT PUBLISHING COMPANY

HE FELT SOMEBODY CATCH HIM BY THE ARM, AND TURNING HE BEHELD NAT.

CONTENTS

PREFACE
CHAPTER I. Nat on the Farm
CHAPTER II. A Quarrel in the Barnyard
CHAPTER III. Nat Leaves the Farm
CHAPTER IV. Abner Balberry's Discovery
CHAPTER V. The Sale of a Cow
CHAPTER VI. Nat on Lake Erie
CHAPTER VII. An Adventure at Niagara Falls
CHAPTER VIII. A Fresh Start in Life
CHAPTER IX. First Days in New York
CHAPTER X. Out of Work Once More
CHAPTER XI. What a Hundred Dollars Did
CHAPTER XII. On the Brooklyn Bridge
CHAPTER XIII. A Swindle Exposed
CHAPTER XIV. Nat Obtains Another Situation
CHAPTER XV. Abner and the Widow Guff
CHAPTER XVI. Abner Visits New York
CHAPTER XVII. A Case of Mistaken Identity
CHAPTER XVIII. Nat Meets His Uncle
CHAPTER XIX. Nat Becomes a Private Clerk
CHAPTER XX. Rufus Cameron's Bold Move
CHAPTER XXI. A Missing Document of Value
CHAPTER XXII. At the Elevated Station
CHAPTER XXIII. Tom Nolan's Confession
CHAPTER XXIV. The Papers in the Trunk
CHAPTER XXV. Back to the City
CHAPTER XXVI. Fred Gives up City Life
CHAPTER XXVII. A Scene at the Hotel
CHAPTER XXVIII. A Sudden Proposal
CHAPTER XXIX. The Capture of Nick Smithers
CHAPTER XXX. Nat Comes into His Own

The Enterprise Books

PREFACE

Nat Nason was a poor country boy with a strong desire to better his condition. Life on the farm was unusually hard for him, and after a quarrel with his miserly uncle, with whom he resided, he resolved to strike out for himself.

Nat was poor and it was a struggle to reach the great city, where the youth trusted that fame