Excerpt from Memories of a Vicarage This little book owes its origin to a suggestion from the Editor of The Sunday at Home. Knowing from a few published reminiscences that my old home was very much alive in my heart, he sug gested that a more deliberate picture of it might be sketched with the pen. His thought was that something better might be thus attempted than a mere collection of curiosities of the past, sketches of old and perhaps obsolete ways and scenes. In our hurrying age, when Home seems too often to stand in peril of decline and fall, the record of the inner life of Home in a past yet not distant genera tion might have a work to do for the home-life of to-day. 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.