Excerpt from Sailor Jack, the Trader "Well, by gum! Am I dreamin'? Is this Tom Randolph or his hant?" "I don't wonder that you are surprised. It's Tom Randolph easy enough, though I can hardly believe it myself when I look in the glass. There isn't a nigger in the settlement that isn't better clad and better mounted than I am." "Well, I have seen you when you looked a trifle pearter, that's a fact." "And what brought me to this? The Yankees and their cowardly sympathizers. 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.