Excerpt from Book of Tales This is a heritage plentiful and noble, and this heritage is Field's. In the last paragraphs of that tender prose poem of Bill - the Lokil Editor one of the Profitable Tales Bill alluz fond uv children 'nd birds 'nd flowers - Bill, who was like the old sycamore that the lightning had struck. With the vines spread all around and over it, covering its scars and splintered branches - occurs this passage That 's Bill perhaps as he stands up fr jedgment - a miserable, tremblin', 'nd unworthy thing, perhaps, but twined about, all over, with singin' and pleadin' little chil dren and that is pleasin' in God's sight, I know. 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.