Excerpt from Some Folks Many of the sketches contained in Some Folks were written by me during the past five years, and some of them published by Mr. Leslie in his Illus trated Newspaper and his Chimney Corner, from which journals they have been collected by friends who be lieve that in these stories is displayed better work manship than I have since done. For myself, I can claim for them only an unusual degree of that unlite erary and unpopular quality called truthfulness. Although at present mildly tolerated in the East, I was brought up in the West, and have written largely from recollection of some folks 7' I have known, veritable men and women, scenes and incidents, and otherwise through the memories Of Western friends of good eyesight and hearing powers. 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.