Excerpt from John Gay; Or, Work for Boys: Work for Spring After the days began to grow warm and pleasant in the spring, the snow was still deep upon the ground in the part Of the country where John and Benny lived. The snow was very hard, however, having become indurated by repeated thawings and freezings, so that now the boys could walk upon the surface of it, over the fields and everywhere, and slide upon their sleds wherever they came to a hill, or to any piece Of descending ground. 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.