PREFACE.
"Bound to be an Electrician" forms the second volume of a line of juvenile stories called "The Working Upward Series."
The tale is complete in itself, and tells of the numerous adventures of a manly youth who determines to become an electrician. Franklin Bell finds his road no easy one to travel, but he is full of pluck and quiet determination. His pluck gains for him the opening he seeks, and from that time on his advancement is steady if not rapid.
In this work I have, for the first time, taken my readers into the great factory life of our country, to show them how thousands of our boys, with scarcely any schooling, have to toil for their daily living. The hero is cast among both the good and the bad, the tender-hearted and the vicious, and he is made to understand only too well that he must either fight his way through or go down in that pitiless struggle which never ceases.
