Excerpt from Persimmons: A Story for Boys and Girls and Men and Women, Who Have Not Forgotten Their School DaysIs it a truly true story? This is the first question that most boys and girls will ask about Persimmons. Let me assure you, my young friends, that Persimmons is a real character. Carl Brown and the other characters are real characters. The center piece of each chapter is actual experience, only the fringe or border of each is fiction.Writing good books is like building good houses. Good sound timber must be used in building the house, but as it approaches completion it is painted without, and par pered and decorated within, to make it look pretty and to preserve it. So in writing a good book. True human experience must furnish the timber for the structure, but the writer colors or adorns the chapter to give it finish, to make it pretty and attractive.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.