Excerpt from Douglass Farm: Juvenile Story of Life in Virginia There is no Home Book for Christmas and New Year's Day; but, instead of a proverbial tale, Cousin Alice greets you with one that she has read and approved, and commends to all who have her own volumes on their book-shelves. In her Christmas story four years ago - a long time for little people to remember, - she promised some day to give a description of the Old Virginia Homestead in which it was written. That was in the introduction to Patient Waiting no Loss, which will prove true in this instance; for the story of Douglass Farm describes these very scenes - the old Hall, the lawn, the avenue, the chubby little negro children who ran to Open the carriage gate in our drives, the Aunties and Uncles of the large kitchen department, - the bountiful Christmas cheer, and the little people for whom it was made ready. All this is described by the young hostess who welcomed her to Margret Hall, - and far better than Cousin Alice would have been able to, inasmuch as it was her birthplace and childhood's home. 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.