Excerpt from A Tangled Skein Have you ever met with a serious acci dent ia a foreign country, or felt some illness creeping over you when amongst strangers? If you have, did not a Wild yearning seize you to hurry home, in spite of all assurances that you would be safer and better tended where you were If you have not, believe me that it is no use arguing with the stricken one who has this feeling upon him. He craves for home, home, no matter how humble it may be. 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.