Excerpt from The Boardman Family Lo, Sam! Said Everett, making for the dressing room. The other followed him. Within, some of the boys were smoking cigarettes, a few of the youngest ones in dulged in very mild and subdued Skylarking, but mostly they wore the dispirited air peculiar to the youthful male on festive occasions, the group who were to take part with Everett looking not nearly so cheerful as the average col lection of pall-bearers. They sat hunched on the tables. 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.