Excerpt from Theophilus Trent: Old Times in the Oak OpeningsT was late afternoon. A red September sun was just setting the Michigan woods afire. It had also kindled the two front windows of a neat log dwelling facing a little green with criss - crosses of wagon-tracks that everybody made at his own sweet will.A log store with a bilious - looking sign over the bat tened door, an old potash-kettle careened beside it, fiounces of gaudy, freckled calico draping the windows, a log smithy with its roof half slipped off behind and its wide mouth of an entrance, as if an ill-conditioned tramp of a house should sit down by the wayside to yawn, a squat log schoolhouse like a sitting hen staring back at the log dwelling with its shining eyes, -such was the picture.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.