Walter Gaston Shotwell
Published: 2017-05-17
Total Pages: 256
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Excerpt from Driftwood: Being Papers on Old-Time American Towns and Some Old People Uring a long and somewhat busy life, filled more with' petty annoyances than ordinarily falls to the lot of others, books have ever been to me a solace from care. I have ranged somewhat widely over the fields of literature, but the great masters of English prose and poetry have been my especial delight. I have sought in these closing days to repay the debt I owe, by setting down here and elsewhere, something that may, perhaps, contribute to others the pleasure I have thus received. These papers have accumulated in my hands, gathered from time to time, from the flowing stream of life; and with the hope that they may prove interesting and instructive to others, who may pick them up, I have thrown them back again upon the same rapidly passing water. Mistakes there doubtless are in them; but the author relies upon the charity of a generous public to appreciate the spirit, in which they were written, and are now published. These old men led hard lives and did a good work and are entitled to be remembered; and these old villages, with the traditions that gather about them, are interesting. 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.