The Boy Broker by Frank A. Munsey

The Boy Broker

Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street

By

Frank A. Munsey

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1888

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The Boy Broker

Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street

By

Frank A. Munsey

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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... While my purpose has been to make The Boy Broker interesting I have aimed to give a true idea of life in a great city. So much nonsense of a misleading character has been written about benevolent old gentlemen who help poor boys from the country that I have sought to turn the light of fact on the subject and picture a little real life—about such life as a boy may expect to find if he comes to New York friendless and alone. He might find it much worse; he could not wisely hope to find it better.

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told him, and he had read also, that the men who move things in this world are men of brains--men who think, who lend ideas to business, to inventions, to anything and everything with which they have to deal.

[Illustration: HERBERT RANDOLPH IN THE POST OFFICE.]

Thus another complication was added, for now he must consider in determining if the position he accepted would give him the widest scope for thought, and the broadest play for genius, ideas, originality and enterprise. His imagination ran fast. He was dead to the busy scenes about him. Great questions pressed home upon him for decision, and he did not decide quickly and without thought, as a light headed boy would have done. No, he pondered long and hard over the subject which meant so much to him, and perhaps to the entire commerce of the city and even the finances of the nation. What might not grow out of his start in life--the start of a thoughtful, industrious, original man? How important, then, that it should be a right sta

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