Excerpt from Rosin the Beau: A Sequel to "Melody" And "Marie"When people ask me where I hail from, our good, neighbourly, down-east way, I answer From the Androscoggin, and that is true enough as far as it goes, for I have spent many years on and about the banks of that fine river, but I have told you more than that. You know something of the little village where I was born and brought up, far to the northeast of your own home village. You know some thing, too, of my second mother, as I call her, - Abby Rock, but of my own sweet mother I have spoken little. Now you shall hear.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.