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A perfect autumn day. Above, the clear sky of Italy; below, a grassy plain, sloping gently down from the brown cliffs and ruined ramparts of old Veii--the city of the ancient Tuscan kings. In the background, under the shade of the oaks, a dozen waiting attendants; and here, in the open space before us, three trim and sturdy Roman youths, all flushed with the exercise of a royal game of ball. Come, boys and girls of to-day, go back with me seventeen and a half centuries, and join the dozen lookers-on as they follow this three-cornered game of ball. They call it the trigon. It. | Historic Boys by Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1 PROJECT GUTENBERG HiSTORIC BOYS Elbridge Streeter Brooks Historic Boys by Elbridge Streeter Brooks The Project Gutenberg eBook Historic Boys by Elbridge Streeter Brooks Illustrated by R. B. Birch and John Schonberg This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Historic Boys Their Endeavours Their Achievements and Their Times Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks Release Date November 4 2008 eBook 27157 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORIC BOYS E-text prepared by Brownfox and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http dirs 2 7 1 5 27157 27157-h or http dirs 2 7 1 5 27157 Historic Boys by Elbridge Streeter Brooks 2 Transcriber s note Text surrounded by underscores i is italic in the original text surrounded by hashes is bold in the original. HISTORIC BOYS Their Endeavours Their Achievements and Their Times. by E. S. BROOKS. Illustrated by R. B. Birch and John Schonberg. Illustration MARCUS ANNIUS VERUS AFTERWARD THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS. From a bust in the Capitoline Museum. Illustration London Blackie Son 49 50 Old Bailey . Glasgow Edinburgh and Dublin. 1886. Illustration PREFACE. The world s historic boys and girls have been many. In every age and clime may be found notable examples of young people who even before they reached manhood or womanhood have--for good or evil--left their impress on their time. From these the author of this volume has selected the careers of a dozen young fellows of different lands and epochs .