Excerpt from Waifs and Strays HE following miscellaneous collection of Stories, Papers, and Addresses were written by me at different periods of my life; some of them dealing with those branches of public work in which I was specially interested, others touching upon moral or social questions, others again being, as it were, flowerets culled from wreaths which I laid in spirit upon the graves of our dear ones; whilst of the two little stories that here find a place, the one recalls in some feeble measure the glory of the beech woods covering the Chiltern Hills; the other those heavenly strains that Lady Hall awoke from the strings of her magic Stradivarius. 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.