Excerpt from Abe Martin's Almanack Kin Hubbard! Why Kin What does that Kin stand for? Hubbard is a name we all know; it is fairly common. But Kin? For years, knowing him, I puzzled myself about why that was his name. I kept wondering why he had chosen it and from what he had abbreviated it. And then it came to me that he had not purposely done it. It just happened on him. At any rate, he awoke one morning and found that one touch of nature had indeed made the whole world Kin's. 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.