Excerpt from Little Hannah Lee: A Winter Story; From Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life; Adapted to Children Was left except the husband and wife, sitting that night by the table in the kitchen. The clock was click ing, and the fire blazing; the table was covered with a clean cloth. The man had put his spade away, for it was Saturday night. The Bible was open on the' chimney piece, for very soon they were going' to read and the milk and oat-cake were ready on the table, for after that they were to have their supper but, in the mean time, they were waiting for somebody. 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.