Excerpt from Johnnie: With Illustrations From Photographs Taken From Life The matter presented in this little volume has assumed its present form and dress with those mingled feelings of bravado and timid ity which afflict the boy when he first appears in long pants. The distress of such a boy becomes the more evident the more it is con cealed. He is painfully conscious of being mostly arms and legs - and clothes. If he swings along carelessly, he is afraid folks will accuse him of putting on; if he adopts a stiff and dignified manner, as best suits his attire, he fears to appear awkward; and, in any case, he is apt to be overtaken at last by the comfortless conviction that people are not noticing him at all. With these emotions and others, the author makes his bow. 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.