[“BOY WANTED”]
[CHAPTER I]
THE AWAKENING
Nothing is impossible to the man who can will.—Mirabeau.
Ho, my brave youth! There’s a “Boy Wanted,” and—how fortunate!—you are the very boy!
Who wants you?
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.—Joubert.
The big, busy, beautiful world wants you, and I really do not see how it is going to get on well without you. It has awaited your coming so long, and has kept in store so many golden opportunities for you to improve, it will be disappointed if, when the proper time arrives, you do not smilingly lay hold and do something worth while.