DO AND DARE

OR

A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune

BY

HORATIO ALGER, JR.

NEW YORK






CHAPTER I.

THE POST OFFICE AT WAYNEBORO.





"If we could only keep the post office, mother, we should be all
right," said Herbert Carr, as he and his mother sat together in the
little sitting room of the plain cottage which the two had occupied
ever since he was a boy of five.