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Excerpt from The Glory of His Country
As the city stranger paused before the venerable homes with wide porticoes, leaf and sunlight-playmates since cre ation - made golden pictures on lawns of plush; birds sang at their building; bees drank from roses; squirrels scam pered off with the cares of earth - and the city turned to a pillar of salt. 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.
