Excerpt from The Parson's BoysThat they, being the acknowledged sons Of a Methodist preacher, were in nowise worse than other youths of their own ages, circumstances and previous conditions of latitude.Furthermore, they solemnly affirm on oath that, to the best of their knowledge and belief, they were very much better than most of the boys of their acquaintance who had not the distinguished honor of being born of Methodistic and ministerial lineage.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.