Excerpt from The Vanished Country Folk Other Studies in Arcady Things be all changed now, it be all different to when I wer' young. I found it right enough Wi' my own Childern, What have all long got married and gone out; and wi' Some 0' theirs married again, SO as there's gran'childern and great - gran' Childern, and not one on 'em bided on the land, not one, though they be all good to I. Not one on 'em bided on the land, not one. 9 These words of old Bithie tell the story. Not one on 'em bided on the land, not one that is it, the old country folk have vanished. There is the fact; the exodus reflects a change in the spirit of the people. 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.