Excerpt from Miss. Blanchard of Chicago, Vol. 1 of 3 The occasional splash of a trout, as it rose at a fly, sounded pleasantly in this youth's ears, and the merry song of a lark high up in the Skies, the note Of a cuckoo in a tall sycamore close at hand, and the whistling and twittering of the various birds in the trees and bushes, accompanied by the drone of the bees as they hovered about him, made the air resound with harmony and gladness but there seemed to be no responding chord in his heart, for his expressive face was clouded with melancholy, While his large blue eyes gazed before him with a dissatisfied, yet wistful expression. 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.