Excerpt from An English Hero: The Story of Richard Cobden, Written for Young People At the time this story begins, the owner of Dunford was a farmer named Richard Cobden. He was a maltster as well as a farmer, and, moreover, had long been bailiff Of Midhurst. There he collected rents and summoned juries, and was well known and respected by all his neighbours. The Old farm house held a large family in those days. Not only did the bailiff himself live there; his married son William and his son's wife, with their little children, found a home with him; and the Old man's heart was gladdened by the merry voices and happy ways of the little ones. 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.