Excerpt from Recollections of a Boyhood in GeorgetownWhen I was a child Georgetown was a town of less than eight thousand inhabitants, an active commercial center with business reaching far into the neighboring States and commerce into distant seas. Its people were industrious, intelligent and enterprising, good citizens, self - reliant, and proud of their town. Life was quiet and homelike, and as travel to distant points was rarely undertaken and the summer hegira to water ing places unknown, there was a wider acquaintance amongst the people, and a closer -'bond of neighborly friendship and intimacy than now exist. Like most towns in Maryland and Virginia the houses in the older, or western part, were of brick, built directly on the street, and except in few cases without grounds either in front or on the sides, the gardens for the sake of privacy being located in the rear. I mention these things to show the surroundings in which I passed my early years.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.