Excerpt from Grandfather Merrie, or the Command and the Promise Charlie, the eldest child, was ten years old at the time his father built the new house, and used often to go and see the workmen planing boards, driving nails, and papering and painting the walls. One day he heard his father say to one of the men, I wish you to line the walls of this room with brick and take pains to make it very tight and warm. 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.