Excerpt from Long Island Miscellanies The author, therefore, with the utmost candor confesses, that many of these incidents are reminiscences of incidents which transpired about half a century ago, and were the conversation of a few old worthies who used to assemble around his father's fire side, to discuss their deliberations over a good mug of October made cider, while the others are merely recollections of events that have transpired since that time to the present. Some of these productions have been published in the long-island Star. 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.