Dick Boldhero : or, A tale of adventures in South America (1845)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · Philadelphia : Sorin and Ball · leaf 137
een years before. Heengaged in commerce, and, being a man ofenterprise, was very successful, and speedilyamassed a large estate. Suddenly, andwithout any known cause, he became poor,closed his business, and lived a life of seclu-sion. At last he disappeared, and no oneseemed to know with certainty… … Alexander Selkirk. done before him. I was told by anotherthat he had become a friar, and lived as ahermit near the foot of one of the snow-cap-ped mountains of the Andes. Another storywas, that the mysterious merchant had gone12 138 DICK BOLDHERO. to Potosi, where he had purchased a silvermine and…
Children's stories, American
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