Will Ellsworth
Published: 2017-12-11
Total Pages: 26
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Excerpt from Columbia's Jubilee in Light and Song As the child at school signs his name under A fair sample of my handwriting, expecting that practice, training and kind criticism from a faithful teacher will improve his hand, so would the author venture these few pages, asking a friendly public to be his kind and faithful helper in a work not wholly a fiction. To forecast that work he would say with Columbia that he has a premonition of coming good, and also his life incidents to confirm that feeling. The cartoon which led him to write this story he found in a comic illustrated paper which, though not given to light reading, he bought under a queer impression that it contained something im portant. His life spent in the society of the rich as well as the poor, the educated as well as the ignorant, and the practical lessons gained thereby, has fitted him to write with a feeling of deep sympathy for the wronged in all classes. While his conception of color-law and plant growth in connection with the evolution of your National flag has caused to spring up in his heart a love of country, the strength and ardor of which is like an inspiration urging him onward. And he only asks that in the parents and children and teachers of our beloved Columbia he may find such an help-meet as the one whom he now leaves to tell her strange, joyful story.my room in a brown study as usual, I picked up an illustrated maga zine and in an aimless manner began to turn the leaves till I came to a colored cartoon which drew my attention, and which I will try to describe. 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.