Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
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All Themes The Power of Thrift Fortune Favors the Industrious Clothes Make the Man The Value of Education American Democracy vs. The British Monarchy
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All Characters Richard “Ragged Dick” Hunter Henry Fosdick Frank Whitney Mr. Rockwell Mr. Greyson Mr. Whitney Mrs. Mooney Micky Maguire Jim Travis Tom Wilkins Johnny Nolan
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All Symbols The Suit Bootblacking Box Restaurants
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Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

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Horatio Alger
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