Excerpt from About Old Story-Tellers of How and When They Lived, and What Stories They Told Out of this effort and intention, has grown the subject matter of this little book, which is planned not alone for a pleasurable beguilement of time in reviving memories of old stories, but for carry ing effective knowledge of dates and places and conditions which young people are blamable for not knowing, and which if they come to know by agreeable coupling of them with happy memories of stories told at night, will stick all the faster and firmer in memory. 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.