Excerpt from The Boys of Springtown: With Special Reference to William Wallace Jones and Ned Fisher It was dark when the wagon containing the big trunk, the bundles, and the emigrant family arrived at their destination. The driver of the wagon, who was the friend that had sent the invitation, had ex plained that he was sorry he could not take them to his home, because one of the children had the measles. 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.