Excerpt from Old Lim Jucklin: The Opinions of an Open-Air Philosopher In the rural South age means wisdom. Merely to have seen the seasons come and go is knowledge, and When age talks not only youth but middle age must be content to listen. Cultivation is mere book - learning, hear say, the rumour of an unsubstantiated truth, as if the book were not the experience of man's mind. The well read and travelled, if not yet out from under the contempt of immature years, must sit respectful-dumb While an old man Who may never have crossed the line of his county consents to give an hour's homily upon the affairs of the world. But With age there sometimes comes a mellow and a sweet ripening of that half philosophical humour Which musty books bound in the hide of some ancient fatted calf delightfully tell us is almost Wholly an anglo-saxon heritage. 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.