Excerpt from A Royal Good Fellow It's no use! Declared Uncle Josiah as he stood on the back porch With a basket of corn on his arm, and you might just exactly as Well give it up first as last. He's a regular old skin flint and he'll never let go of an acre of that land or a dollar of that money as long as he can shut his thumb over his fingers. 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.