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Beadle's Pocket Library No. 286

1889 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of the pulp weekly presents "Dick, the Dakota Sport: A Western Lad in the Quaker City," by Charles Morris, a serial sequel to "Dakota Dick in Chicago." The protagonist, a young man of twenty-one named Dick Dashaway, arrives penniless in Philadelphia with supreme confidence and an absurdly anachronistic wardrobe. After a street confrontation with a dignified citizen, Dick encounters John Blossom, a wealthy merchant, and retrieves a dropped pocketbook—which Blossom assumes is a con game attempt. Believing himself too shrewd to be tricked, Blossom refuses the purse. Dick keeps it and uses the stolen money for an elaborate dinner, later revealing Blossom's own pocketbook contained nearly a thousand dollars. The merchant discovers his loss, realizing he was outsmarted by the very ruffian he dismissed as incompetent. The narrative establishes Dick as a confident trickster navigating urban Philadelphia through audacity and quick thinking.

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