Excerpt from What to Do and How to Do It: The American Boys Handy Book
The exceedingly kind reception given the first edition of this book by the public and the most whole press of the country is most gratifying to the author; but what pleases him still more is the knowledge that he contributes to the pleasure of the boys of America, the boys who soon will be the men of America, upon whom will rest the destiny of this great country.
Some years have quietly slipped by since the first edition of this book was published. Monad, the little dog whose portrait adorns Chapter XXIV., no longer accompanies his master, "seated in front of the sliding-seat of a shell," on his rowing expeditions, but is content to lie on the door-mat and sleep away the summer days.
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