Excerpt from Pleasant Street, Smiling Valley One cold, snowy morning, a carpenter, who had no particular work on hand, went into his shop, and looked about for a piece of wood to busy himself upon, but the right piece wouldn't seem to come up. One queer-looking stick kept showing itself again and again. I can never make anything of this, it is such a funny-shaped piece, but I might just saw it a little and see what is in it, he said, and began to saw. Soon some thing like a head appeared; he sawed a little longer, and then came a neck, and then a little longer, and there was a leg. 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.