Excerpt from Roxy's Good Angel: And Other New England Tales "If you've got tew a spot where you c'n leave off, mebbe you'd best come out an' fry the nut cakes fer me, a-standin' over the hot fat fetches out my 'umor so. The stuff that root an' yarb doctor fixed up ferme 's a-helpin' of me, but he said I'd hev ter be dretful keerful 'bout gittin' my blood het," said Mrs. Kent, as she put her head into the "west room," where her daughter, Roxana, was carefully placing the braided mats on the cleanly swept rag carpet. "That hooked-in rug's a beauty! I'm glad you put it before the table where 't won't git trod on much," continued Mrs. Kent, as she looked admiringly at a rug upon which blossomed a bouquet of flowers which it would have puzzled a botanist to classify. "Did David notice your new rug last Sunday night, Roxy?" "Yes, he said 't I beat natur' on posies," was the reply. It was a balmy Saturday morning in the last of May. 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.