Boy Wanted

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Waterman Nixon. Boy Wanted

CHAPTER I. THE AWAKENING

CHAPTER II “AM I A GENIUS?”

CHAPTER III. OPPORTUNITY

CHAPTER IV. OVER AND UNDERDOING

CHAPTER V. THE VALUE OF SPARE MOMENTS

CHAPTER VI. CHEERFULNESS

CHAPTER VII. DREAMING AND DOING

CHAPTER VIII “TRIFLES”

CHAPTER IX. THE WORTH OF ADVICE

CHAPTER X. REAL SUCCESS

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Ho, my brave youth! There’s a “Boy Wanted,” and – how fortunate! – you are the very boy!

Who wants you?

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Everything and anything you can do or care to do. You are to take your pick of all the trades, professions, and vocations of mankind. Look about you and note the thousand and one things now being done by the men of to-day. It will not be so very long till all of these men will be old enough to retire from active service, and then you and the other boys, who in the meantime have grown to man’s estate, will be called upon to perform every one of the tasks these men are now doing. Doesn’t it look as if there would be plenty of honest, earnest, wholesome toil for hand and head in store for you as soon as you are ready to undertake it? You cannot wonder that the busy old world is ever and always hanging out its notice —

No, the world does not insist that you are to accept a position and begin work with your hands at once, but it wishes you to begin to think right things. “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” What you think will have much to do in determining what you are to become.

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