Excerpt from Far From the Madding Crowd I did not anticipate that this application of the word to modern story would extend outside the chapters Of these particular chronicles. But it was soon taken up elsewhere, the first to adopt it being the now defunct Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date july 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles The Wessex Labourer, the article turning out to'be no dissertation on farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west counties. 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.