Excerpt from The Town of Cowper: Or the Literary and Historical Association of Olney and Its Neighbourhood Many of the inhabitants are engaged in the shoe-trade. What though it sometimes appears desolate! A short time ago a visitor, after facetiously observing that You might fire a cannon down the street all day, without injuring even a cat, inquired of a shoemaker, the only person to be seen, where the people were. Where they ought to be, was the prompt answer, all at work, sir l Let it never again be imputed to us as a fault that our street is often empty? Of the sketches that form this book, No. 2 and part of No. 1 were contributed to the Leisure Hour a.few months ago; and my thanks are due to Dr. Macaulay for permission to use them. 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.