Excerpt from Poor Boys' Chances Indeed the wonder is that the boys Of two or three genera tions ago found any special opportunities for bettering their condition, for manufactures were few, and there was little chance in them to get rich quickly; there was none Of the railroads, mines and scores of other new businesses which are now enriching many thousands Of men and stimulating the minds Of hundreds of thousands. 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.