Excerpt from Sealed Orders The most I remember of our folks is what dreadful sav ing folks they were. And when Connecticut folks set out to save, it's a -savin' sight, I tell you, Tom. Sometimes I had a wonder how they ever could have done it if it had n't been for me. If father wanted to save seventy-five cents on a man's hire he put me at it, mowing, berrying, weeding, tending caows. I drove a plow before I was up to that little lad of Peterson's shoulders, that he brought down here last Christmas, maybe you remember. A likely lit tle lad. I was glad to know Peterson schooled him a little. I was glad to see him on a Christmas time. But when I patted his head he shied off. Children don't take to me. Maybe I don't understand their ways. I lived so different when I was a little child. I don't see a little chap brought up just as I was very often. 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.