Excerpt from Hammet Achmet: A Servant of George WashingtonYears ago in Middletown, Conn., there lived an aged colored man, he was very short and thick-set, very black, with sooty wool, which long manipula tion had converted into pipe-stem curls, which waved about his face in the most comical way imaginable. He had been a servant of General Washington. At first as a little boy, holding the General's horse, then waiter - for many long stories he could tell of the fine dinners and grand company in Massa Washington's mansion.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.