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Excerpt from Our Children: Scenes From the Country and the Town
Even when quite a long way off, she could see her grandmother seated on her stone doorstep. The dear grandmother who smiled with her toothless mouth and Opened her old arms thin as grape vines to welcome her little granddaughter. I*'a1111y's heart was filled with delight at the prospect of spending a whole day at her grandmother's. And her grandmother, having no longer any cares or tasks, but living like a cricket near the fire, is happy too to see the little daughter of her son, a sweet reminder of her youth. They have many things to say to each other, for one of them is at the end of life's voyage and the other is just setting out upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
