Excerpt from The Farmer's Boy IN what this volume tells of the farmer's boy, readers will find that many episodes and interests in the life of the boy are not even mentioned. One book, indeed, would not contain them all. There is, however, one important omission that is intentional - his school life. The reason for this is that the writer treated the subject in detail in a volume uniform with this, published last year. Its title is The Country School in New England, and its pub lishers are D. Appleton and Company, of New York. It is also to be explained that, while the present volume is primarily about the boy on the farm, it is intended that the rest of the family, in par ticular the girl, shall not altogether lack attention either in text. 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.