Excerpt from Black Moss, Vol. 2: A Tale by a Tarn Now the undertaker of Black Moss reasoned within himself, that it would not be hard to wipe out all traces of that night's work which had been done by those half dozen home-sick rats. And after he had so reasoned he went out and destroyed them utterly. Neither did he conceive it to be a hard thing to stay the blending of the mountain-fed stream and the churchyard fed drain. Perhaps they had already blended a. Little too long. And so before another day had gone by he put away this terror; and then, so far, he fancied his safety to be very sure. There was only the coat that could harm him now; and then the thought of what that might do to him did terribly disturb him. Sometimes he was up about it, and sometimes he was down; but he was oftenest down. 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.