Excerpt from The First of June: Or Schoolboy RivalryIf any parts of either story should be considered by parents or teachers as too light and frivolous to find a place in works designed for so grave a purpose, I W)uld beg them to remember the acknowledged difficulty there is in impressing boys of the age herein dealt with. It is to little purpose that we teach ever so wisely or profoundly, if the teaching is not listened to by those to whom it is addressed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.