Excerpt from The Highway to Leadership At last spring had come to the Park. It had been long in coming. Perhaps that was why it was greeted with such exuberant joy in the section set apart as a playground. Squeals of delight came from the group at the far end, near the lilac bushes, where three deep was in progress. Above all the babel of sounds came snatches of the words that clear soprano voices were chanting, Go in and out the win dow. Go stand behind your lover. There was a belated game of marbles being played in the only spot where the sun had not yet dried the recent rains - mud and marbles are so hard to separate - who can say why? Across the bridge the older girls were playing volley ball. But the diamond was the noisiest and most popular Spot, although for a few moments a ring-tossing game had caused a dispute that rivaled even the ball game in intensity and interest. 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.