Chapter I: Front Matter

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ALGER SERIES No. 149
On Time

_BY_
OLIVER OPTIC

STREET & SMITH CORPORATION
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK]

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BOOKS THAT NEVER GROW OLD

Alger Series

Price, Fifteen Cents Clean Adventure Stories for Boys

The Most Complete List Published

The following list does not contain all the books that Horatio Alger wrote, but it contains most of them, and certainly the best.

Horatio Alger is to boys what Charles Dickens is to grown-ups. His work is just as popular to-day as it was years ago. The books have a quality, the value of which is beyond computation.

There are legions of boys of foreign parents who are being helped along the road to true Americanism by reading these books which are so peculiarly American in tone that the reader cannot fail to absorb some of the spirit of fair play and clean living which is so characteristically American.

In this list will be included certain books by Edward Stratemeyer, Oliver Optic, and other authors who wrote the Alger type of stories, which are equal in interest and wholesomeness with those written by the famous author after which this great line of books for boys is named.

_ALL TITLES ALWAYS IN PRINT_

1--Driven From Home By Horatio Alger, Jr.
2--A Cousin’s Conspiracy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
3--Ned Newton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
4--Andy Gordon By Horatio Alger, Jr.
5--Tony, the Tramp By Horatio Alger, Jr.
6--The Five Hundred Dollar Check By Horatio Alger, Jr.
7--Helping Himself By Horatio Alger, Jr.
8--Making His Way By Horatio Alger, Jr.
9--Try and Trust By Horatio Alger, Jr.
10--Only an Irish Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
11--Jed, the Poorhouse Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
12--Chester Rand By Horatio Alger, Jr.
13--Grit, the Young Boatman of Pine Point By Horatio Alger, Jr.
14--Joe’s Luck By Horatio Alger, Jr.
15--From Farm Boy to Senator By Horatio Alger, Jr.
16--The Young Outlaw By Horatio Alger, Jr.
17--Jack’s Ward By Horatio Alger, Jr.
18--Dean Dunham By Horatio Alger, Jr.
19--In a New World By Horatio Alger, Jr.
20--Both Sides of the Continent By Horatio Alger, Jr.
21--The Store Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
22--Brave and Bold By Horatio Alger, Jr.
23--A New York Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
24--Bob Burton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
25--The Young Adventurer By Horatio Alger, Jr.
26--Julius, the Street Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
27--Adrift in New York By Horatio Alger, Jr.
28--Tom Brace By Horatio Alger, Jr.
29--Struggling Upward By Horatio Alger, Jr.
30--The Adventures of a New York Telegraph Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
31--Tom Tracy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
32--The Young Acrobat By Horatio Alger, Jr.
33--Bound to Rise By Horatio Alger, Jr.
34--Hector’s Inheritance By Horatio Alger, Jr.
35--Do and Dare By Horatio Alger, Jr.
36--The Tin Box By Horatio Alger, Jr.
37--Tom, the Bootblack By Horatio Alger, Jr.
38--Risen from the Ranks By Horatio Alger, Jr.
39--Shifting for Himself By Horatio Alger, Jr.
40--Wait and Hope By Horatio Alger, Jr.
41--Sam’s Chance By Horatio Alger, Jr.
42--Striving for Fortune By Horatio Alger, Jr.
43--Phil, the Fiddler By Horatio Alger, Jr.
44--Slow and Sure By Horatio Alger, Jr.
45--Walter Sherwood’s Probation By Horatio Alger, Jr.
46--The Trials and Triumphs of Mark Mason By Horatio Alger, Jr.
47--The Young Salesman By Horatio Alger, Jr.
48--Andy Grant’s Pluck By Horatio Alger, Jr.
49--Facing the World By Horatio Alger, Jr.
50--Luke Walton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
51--Strive and Succeed By Horatio Alger, Jr.
52--From Canal Boy to President By Horatio Alger, Jr.
53--The Erie Train Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
54--Paul, the Peddler By Horatio Alger, Jr.
55--The Young Miner By Horatio Alger, Jr.
56--Charlie Codman’s Cruise By Horatio Alger, Jr.
57--A Debt of Honor By Horatio Alger, Jr.
58--The Young Explorer By Horatio Alger, Jr.
59--Ben’s Nugget By Horatio Alger, Jr.
60--The Errand Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
61--Frank and Fearless By Horatio Alger, Jr.
62--Frank Hunter’s Peril By Horatio Alger, Jr.
63--Adrift in the City By Horatio Alger, Jr.
64--Tom Thatcher’s Fortune By Horatio Alger, Jr.
65--Tom Turner’s Legacy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
66--Dan, the Newsboy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
67--Digging for Gold By Horatio Alger, Jr.
68--Lester’s Luck By Horatio Alger, Jr.
69--In Search of Treasure By Horatio Alger, Jr.
70--Frank’s Campaign By Horatio Alger, Jr.
71--Bernard Brook’s Adventures By Horatio Alger, Jr.
72--Robert Coverdale’s Struggles By Horatio Alger, Jr.
73--Paul Prescott’s Charge By Horatio Alger, Jr.
74--Mark Manning’s Mission By Horatio Alger, Jr.
75--Rupert’s Ambition By Horatio Alger, Jr.
76--Sink or Swim By Horatio Alger, Jr.
77--The Backwoods Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
78--Tom Temple’s Career By Horatio Alger, Jr.
79--Ben Bruce By Horatio Alger, Jr.
80--The Young Musician By Horatio Alger, Jr.
81--The Telegraph Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
82--Work and Win By Horatio Alger, Jr.
83--The Train Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
84--The Cash Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
85--Herbert Carter’s Legacy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
86--Strong and Steady By Horatio Alger, Jr.
87--Lost at Sea By Horatio Alger, Jr.
88--From Farm to Fortune By Horatio Alger, Jr.
89--Young Captain Jack By Horatio Alger, Jr.
90--Joe, the Hotel Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
91--Out for Business By Horatio Alger, Jr.
92--Falling in With Fortune By Horatio Alger, Jr.

ON TIME OR, BOUND TO GET THERE

BY
OLIVER OPTIC
Author of many books for boys which will never grow old.

STREET & SMITH CORPORATION
PUBLISHERS
79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York

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Copyright, 1869
By W. T. ADAMS

Renewal Granted to
Alice Adams Russell, 1897

On Time

(Printed in the United States of America)

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ON TIME.