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Bound to be an Electrician

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Bound to be an Electrician (1903)
by Edward Stratemeyer

Second volume in the Working Upwards series

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WORKING UPWARD SERIES



BOUND TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN

OR

FRANKLIN BELL'S SUCCESS


BY

EDWARD STRATEMEYER


ILLUSTRATED



BOSTON

LEE AND SHEPARD

1903


The young electrician was thoroughly interestedPage 46


PREFACE.




"Bound to be an Electrician" forms the second volume of a line of juvenile stories called "The Working Upward Series."

The tale is complete in itself, and tells of the numerous adventures of a manly youth who determines to become an electrician. Franklin Bell finds his road no easy one to travel, but he is full of pluck and quiet determination. His pluck gains for him the opening he seeks, and from that time on his advancement is steady if not rapid.

In this work I have, for the first time, taken my readers into the great factory life of our country, to show them how thousands of our boys, with scarcely any schooling, have to toil for their daily living. The hero is cast among both the good and the bad, the tender-hearted and the vicious, and he is made to understand only too well that he must either fight his way through or go down in that pitiless struggle which never ceases.

Again thanking my young readers for their cordial reception of former works, I place this story in their hands, in the earnest hope that its perusal will do them much good.

Edward Stratemeyer.


ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
The young electrician was thoroughly interested (Frontispiece) 46
The girls shrieked and the boys laughed 11
Franklin sprang over the fence at a bound 55
"Bell, come here and explain this at once" 96



This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


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