Excerpt from Frances and the Irrepressibles at Buena Vista Farm These children enjoyed far better going to this farm than to the seashore, moun tains, or any fashionable resort. It was one of the most attractive places one could imagine for, healthy, romping, growing children to pass a summer in, as there was everything for them to have fun with from fishing and sailing on the lake to riding on loads of hay and building log cabins in the woods. These were some of the pas times the older children enjoyed while the younger ones were happy playing round the house. There always were new little kittens and puppies to be inspected each year and divided among the youngsters after much arguing and disputing as to which was the prettiest, and as to who was entitled to first choice. Then there were the little, fluffy, yellow chickens just out of their shells, and last but not least, there was the swing; yes, the swing, and such a glorious one you never saw in all your life, so I am going to describe it to you minutely. In the first place it was hung from a high curved limb of a tall elm tree, so high that no ladder on the farm could reach it, so they had to wait until the men came along to mend the telegraph wires, when, having boots with long nails in them to help them climb the poles, Miss Amelia would ask them to put up the rope for the swing. The advantage of having such a long rope was that the swing went so high that the earth seemed dropping away and one could see across the lake at the bottom _of the hill and far away over the tree tops for miles and miles where the country faded into a purple mist. This swing was the beloved object of all the children who came to the farm and was the first thing they went to on arriving. 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.