Excerpt from Skirmishes and Sketches All this while bright-eyed Kathleen kept every thing snug antl nice in the two rooms of their little cottage, her own self the snuggest and nicest thing in it, and that Corny knew right well. To this little cottage there presently came a'great joy and a great sorrow, a great joy of hope and antici patiou, a great sorrow of disappointment for a lit tle girl that was dead before she was born and then another joy of hope and anticipation, and another sorrow of deep disappointment for a little boy that was but a few seconds a baby before he was an angel and yet a third time hope budded and bloomed, - yes, thank God! Bloomed into a big, burly, scowling, healthy baby, hideous to the unprejudiced eye, but handsome as babies go; and he clenched his fist and vowed in baby fashion to live as long as Methuselah. And they called his name Corny. Then in all the land was nobody so. 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.