Excerpt from Prose PastoralsNo apology is offered for writing these Pastorals, or for putting them before the public in their present form. When they were written the author had no thought of making a book. What they may be to others he does not know, but to himself they are homely transcripts from Nature's pages, gathered here and there, as commonplace as much that goes to make up Nature's every-day moods.The title to a book is like a door-plate: it tells who may be found within, and nothing more. To know the dwellers well, one must step inside, - must eat of their salt and drink of their "pottle" more than once.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.