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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Virginia of Elk Creek ValleyThen he gathered up the reins and drove his horses through the creek, and on toward the Gap and the open prairie.Don, cried the girl, suddenly clutching his arm with one hand and pointing with the other, there's some Wild bergamot just opening! I never knew it to be as early as this! And see! There's a sun ¿ower On the edge Of the wheat field! There'll be thousands Of them soon! They're like Priscilla!A...

Excerpt from Bernardine: A Comedy in Two ActsThe orchestra rises in the pit and goes away. The buzzing in the audience subsides. The house lights dim. A pin spotlight moves across the thick red velvet curtain and pic/es out a young man stepping from behind the curtain to face the audience. He is in the uniform of the United States Air Force. He smiles. He says.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

Excerpt from Mary M. Chase and Her WritingsTwo years ago, word came to me, like the startling toll of the village church bell, that the life of your daughter Mary was ebbing fast. I broke from busi ness, and sought out the yet unknown way among the silent hills to your retired home. You met me at the door, took my hand, - for you knew me, though you had never seen me, and led me with quiet step to her bedside. The ¿ush of setting life was on h...

Excerpt from Mrs. McThing: A PlayCopyright (under the title M Thing) 1949 by Mary Coyle Chase. Revised version copyright 1952 by Mary Coyle Chase.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 for...

Excerpt from The Girl From the Big Horn CountryA september afternoon in the Big Horn moun tains! The air crystal clear, the sky cloudless, the outlines of the hills distinct! Elk Creek Valley lay golden in the sunshine, Silent save for the incessant hum of locust and cricket, the hurrying of the creek waters, and the occasional bellowing of steers on the range beyond the foot-hills deserted except for the distant cattle, a coyote stealing acro...

Excerpt from Natural Laws in Piano TeachingIt has been argued that it not only is unnecessary but inadvisable to make a study of the anatomy of the hand, of the muscles used in piano playing, and their vari ous actions, that the mind should be upon the effect to be produced, upon tone pro duction and interpretation and not upon mechanical actions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find...

Excerpt from Benjamin Lee, 2d: A Record Gathered From Letters, Note-Books, and Narratives of FriendsAlways he had seemed, with a rare instinct, to hold the balance true between the gifts that life so bounti fully bestowed upon him and those gifts that she demanded of him - even to the complete giving of himself. He was not of those who always seem to be waiting to live, he lived with a zest as he went along, quite conscious of the happiness an...

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THE STORY: When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy w...

Originally published in 1960, this beautiful novel, by one of America's best loved writers, is an absorbing family chronicle of the early twentieth century. Set half in England and half in her native state of Maine, the narrative allows the author to make splendid use of this dual setting to depict with affection the two areas she loved best in the world. John Tillyard, a Wesleyan parson, brings his wife and three children from England when he...

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