Excerpt from Werner's Readings and Recitations, Vol. 22 After years of planning and hard work, he had managed to erect a little wooden barn, in which he took a childish pride., Couldn't think 0' lettin' me paint a sign on that barn? Mused the stranger. What kind of a sign? See the darned things! Rapping savagely on the edge of the pan to rattle the bugs back. 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.