Excerpt from The Village Boys: Or Stories to Persuade Boys Not to Quarrel Haverdale is a small town among the mountains. Through one corner of it runs a river, upon the banks of which is the village. It is a beautiful place; for both Upper and Lower streets are wide and ornamented with trees, and many pleasant lanes connect the two. At the upper end of the village near the school-house, is a large common, extending between the two streets, at the farther side of which, near the road, is an oak, around which the boys assemble to play. 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.