Excerpt from When the Century Was New: A NovelOf course there were the discarded spinning Wheel and broken chairs and the remains Of a claw-footed table, but no Old books, nor any bull-hide trunk studded with brass tacks. I was bitterly disappointed. Long current stories Of the early days Of the horse-head Inn were then nothing but stories told to amuse children, but by them repeated to a third generation as sober truth. Is such the beginning Of much that we now call history?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.