Excerpt from A Story or Two From an Old Dutch Town America, if the town has stayed comfortably small, and business and trade and the stirring young men have gone by it, and even out of it, rather than into it and over it, there may be found by any good eyes, this day, old ways handed down along with old houses and tables and chairs and bedsteads and iron-ware, silver, china, and delft-ware, ay, and' along with old stories, also. 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.