Excerpt from Little Mill Dam: With Other Select and Original Moral Tales One day the master of a small school, which was kept in the outskirts of a retired country village, in the mountainous regions of New England, thought he would go out in one of the recesses to seek a little recreation. He had been in the school only a few days, and was as yet scarcely acquainted with his new charge. On the steps of the door of the school house there were two of the boys whittling. They started up hastily as they saw him coming, but he requested them to sit still, saying that he could pass them as they were. 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.