Excerpt from Tales From Life: Designed to Illustrate Certain Religious Doctrines and Practices, Which Prevail at the Present DayRapidity of its current, and over it lay my only road to mill, and to the store, which, by the way, were distant twenty miles.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.