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Title: The Boy Broker
Among the Kings of Wall Street

Author: Frank A. Munsey

Release Date: May 20, 2009 [EBook #28887]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

THE BOY BROKER

or

Among the Kings of
Wall Street

By FRANK A MUNSEY

Illustrated

[Illustration: HERBERT RANDOLPH EMERGES FROM THE CELLAR IN WHICH HE HAS
BEEN KEPT A PRISONER.]

THE BOY BROKER;

OR,

AMONG THE KINGS OF WALL STREET.

BY

FRANK A. MUNSEY.

NEW YORK:
FRANK A. MUNSEY & CO., PUBLISHERS, 81 WARREN STREET.
1888.

COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY
FRANK A. MUNSEY.

[_All rights reserved._]

PRESS OF FERRIS BROTHERS.
420 Pearl Street, N. Y.

TO MY DEAR FATHER,
WHOSE RIGID NEW ENGLAND DISCIPLINE SEEMED TO ME AS A BOY SEVERE AND
UNNECESSARY, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED WITH THE
GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT HE WAS RIGHT AND THAT
I WAS WRONG. FOR THIS TRAINING AND FOR ALL ELSE
I OWE HIM I CAN PAY THE DEBT BEST BY
LIVING THE LIFE THAT WILL
PLEASE HIM MOST.

PREFACE.

The best story for boys is the one that will help them most and give
them the greatest pleasure--the story that will make them more manly,
more self reliant, more generous, more noble and sweeter in disposition.
Such a story I have aimed to make THE BOY BROKER. The moral or lesson it
contains could be put into a very short lecture, but as a lecture I am
confident that it would prove valueless. Boys are benefited little by
advice. They seldom l