Excerpt from Five Years in the West, or How an Inexperienced Young Man Finds His Occupation: With Reminiscences and Sketches of Real LifeMy dear boy - this is my old familiar style, and it is to-day fresh and green in my memory your questions remind me of earlier days when I was a young and happy mother, not that I am unhappy now, but different from those days, for my little boys were around me then. Those days, I might say, were my happiest. Questions then, as from you now, fell thick and fast from the lips of my little boys. Though I did my best to satisfy every inquir ing mind, yet the ingenuity of sharp little wits taxed my understanding to a degree that I waived many a question through the business of the day.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 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.