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"Almost a crowd, for Russellville, stood in front of the drug store."

The Young Reporter

A Story of Printing House Square.

By

William Drysdale,

Author of "Abel Forefinger," "In Sunny Lands," "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit," etc.

Illustrated by
Charles Copeland.



Boston:
W. A. Wilde & Company,
25 Bromfield Street.

Copyright, 1895,

By W. A. Wilde & Company.

All rights reserved.


The Young Reporter.

Contents
Chapter Page
I. A Night in the Transport Office 7
II. The Printer Boy Becomes a Reporter 24
III. The Stolen Locomotive 40
IV. A Wild Night on New York Bay 64
V. "Shadowing" the Chief of Police 83
VI. How Dick Spurned a Bribe 102
VII. Dick Lands in Mexico with a Family 119
VIII. A Voyage to Porto Rico 139
IX. A Stranded Ship and a Board of Survey 158
X. Dick Meets a Fighting Preacher 181
XI. The "Hoodooed" Steamboat 201
XII. A Narrow Escape in Arkansas 221
XIII. Dick Begins to Write a Novel 240
XIV. A Night Ride on a Fire Engine 260
XV. "The Through Sleeper" 280
Illustrations.
Page
"Almost a crowd, for Russellville, stood in front of the drugstore" Frontispiece 12
"You're just in time, Randall" 59
"What's the matter, old fellow?" 128
"He snatched an iron belaying-pin from its socket and sprang forward" 179
"On they flew, faster and faster, every moment" 266