PREFACE

    We print the following story from Horatio Alger, Jr., ``Bound to Rise,\'\' hoping it will reach as many boys of the present day as it did those of the past, and inspire them to work for success, as did the hero of this story.

   And *notice that *honesty is always the key to any endeavor. Harry Walton and Luke Harrison were two country boys who had the same opportunities to achieve success.

   Harry Walton by his efforts succeeded, and Luke Harrison\'s life was a failure.

   Read this story and you will see what qualities in the one brought about his success, and what in the other caused his downfall.