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Excerpt from A Tale of the African Veldt
Petition from America to President Kruger to spare the forfeited life of John Hays Hammond. The story opens just before the raid, and ends in good time happily, as all good stories do. Many of the facts through which the love story runs were mentioned in my presence in old Crosby Hall, and may be taken to be not only true, but accurately reported, as some true facts are not. It may be added also that the love story itself has fact for a foundation. As a compatriot of the fair author I most heartily bid Godspeed to her con. 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.
