Among the many good and wise things said by the great Lincoln was this: "Give me the boy with promise of the man in him and give me the man with the memory of the boy in him and both can sit at my table and if they sit together we'll have all the better time!"
This book of out-door games for boys will make better boys and they'll get a lot more joy out of life and be the better men in time for having read it and carried out its rules as to wholesome honest sport.
The boy who plays an honest game will do an honest business and he'll win over "the sneak."
If you are "a grown-up" read this book and in doing so live over again the joyous gladsome days of your boyhood and you will sigh as we do while writing this: "Would I were a boy again!"
We want the mother as well as the father to read this book for it will recall the brothers of far-off days and bring her into closer sympathy we must not say "love" for that is already strong enough with the exuberance of her boys.
And the girls? Why bless you! They too should read every scrap of this book for they will find in it many of their own games and not one that they could not play and enjoy if circumstances permitted.
And the grand-parents? God bless them! Why they'll enjoy it quite as much as the young folks.