Excerpt from A Girl of '76 T was very quiet in the room where Elizabeth Hall sat doing her daily stent of sewing. She had worked a sufficiently presentable sampler by the time' she was seven years old, had pieced an entire quilt before she was ten, and was now sewing upon the Shirt she was to complete for her father within a given time. She plied her needle swiftly and carefully, looking, from time to time, at the minute stitches set along the piece of linen. If, by chance, one seemed too conspicuous, she unthreaded her needle and ripped out the offending stitch. 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.