Excerpt from Captain Mary Miller: A Drama Mrs. G. Yes, but yer never as'd me! An' I didn't want her sold, muther You know haow I took care 0' that caarf. Her mother died, an' never saw her. I almost feel as if she was mine for I brought her up like a baby, and she sucked milk from my finger before she could stan'. I'm sure I'm as much her mother as harf the hens are mothers of their chickens: for they never see some 0' the eggs till they are put under 'em to hatch, an' they don't know which is which. 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.