Excerpt from Bertie and the Carpenters: Or, the Way to Be Happy The name of the donkey was Whitefoot. Mamma soon found he was a very useful beast, even to her. He was so docile and obedient that she felt perfectly safe to trust Bertie arid Winifred to ride all about the town. Sometimes when papa was engaged giving orders to his men, or when he had taken a hurried trip to the city, to see after his business there, mamma allowed her son to drive her to the different cottages, where her poor people lived.14 bertie and the carpenters. Mr. Curtis was very rich. In the city, where he had always resided until he found the pretty village of Oxford, there was an immense store close by the wharf. Over the door was a sign-board, near fifty years Old, on which was painted the names, curtis, dalrymple Co. The Curtis who had then owned part Of the famous Old store, was not Lawrence Curtis, Bertie's papa, but Lawrence Curtis, uncle to the boy's father, for whom he was named. 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.