Mark
Manning's Mission The Story of a Shoe Factory Boy. by Horatio Alger - book
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ILLUSTRATED Mark supports his mother by working in a shoe factory until he
loses his job; he is then hired to track down the long-lost heir to a fortune.
Aka: Making His Own Fortune.
Mark Manning supports his widowed mother by
working as a shoe-pegger in Squire Collin's manufacturing plant in Pecasset.
The squire’s son, James, and the postmaster’s son, Tom Wyman, taunt Mark
because he is poor. Mark loses his job after he and James get into a fight.
However, he soon finds another job as errand boy and man of business for an
ailing—but secretly wealthy—hermit named Old Anthony. With Mark's help,
Old Anthony recovers his health and takes a renewed interest in life, though
troubled by Lyman Taylor, his greedy, dishonest nephew. He sends Mark to the
Midwest to locate a possible living heir, the son of the hermit's deceased
daughter. Mark must find the boy to secure the futures of his employer, his
mother, and himself, and prohibit Taylor from being Old Anthony’s benefactor.
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