Excerpt from Blanche, and Her Friends: Or the Surprise So the robins twittered back songs as much like the children's as they could make them; and the tall pine trees in the churchyard waved and waved against the sky like paint brushes, soaking up the sunshine; and passing it down to the children, made their faces glow again, and their hearts leap delightedly. 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.