Excerpt from Rainy WeekCertainly neither my Husband nor myself would ever dream of running a house-party Without Rollins!Yet equally certain it is not at all on Rollins 's account but distinctly on our own that we invariably set the date for our annual house-party in the second week of May.For twenty years, in the particular corner of the New England sea-coast which my hus band and I happen to inhabit, it has never, with one single exception only, failed to rain from morning till night and night till morning again through the second week of May!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.