Excerpt from Out to Win Somewhere between the ages of fifteen and twenty, and generally nearer to fifteen than to twenty, many boys go through a mental process which, if we left it to them to define, they would declare to be the period of their waking up. And if we further inquired from what and to What they were waking up, they, or at least some of them, would tell us that they were waking up from the silly bondage, the in fantine trammels of babyhood to the guh lorious freedom of manhood. To put it briefly, Bill Horton is waking up to his rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.