Excerpt from The Boys' Revolt: A Story of the Street Arabs of New York IT was the time when enterprising boys in the boot blackening business should have been reaping a rich harvest of pennies and nickels, such as would make a good showing on the credit side of the Profit and Loss account. A foggy morning, with light sprinklings of rain now and then not sufficiently stormy to prevent pedestrians from venturing out, but with just enough moisture in the air to destroy the most brilliant polish ever put upon a piece of leather. At noon the sun appeared from behind the clouds; the Sidewalks were quickly dried, and every inanimate thing, save the boots and shoes which had been carry ing their owners through the mud, looked bright and fresh. On this particular afternoon many gentlemen who remained down town because of business or pleasure. 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.