Excerpt from In Colonial Times: The Adventures of Ann, the Bound Girl of Samuel Wales, of Braintree, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay The mother was coarse and illiterate, but She had some natural affection; She took on sadly when the little girl was about to leave her, and Ann clung to her frantically. It was a pitiful scene, and Samuel Wales, who was a very tender hearted man, was glad when it was over, and he jogging along the bridle-path. 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.