Excerpt from Nick Hardy at College: Or, the Wooden Spoon Circumstances may idealize the homeliest common thing, and a mere utensil with a history is longer a dumb piece of service, but a token. Let this apologize for the wooden whim which names my college-tale. The concern of my hero in the mystery of the broken spoon is less a concern of inheritance than of a coincidence of fortunes; for both the young heir and his old heirloom are instruments of restoration. The latter brings ancestral values, the former ancestral virtues back to light. 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 techlogy 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.