Excerpt from Elsie Wood: A Story for Girls Harry was quite a baby, with a bright rosy face, soft fair hair, and tiny white plump hands. Elsie was a kind sister, and many a happy hour she spent in playing with her baby brothers; but she had one great fault, and that was a habit of procrastination. Perhaps some of my young readers may not know what such a long word means, and so I will tell them. There is an old proverb which says, Never put off till to-morrow what can be done to-day, ' and this explains exactly what procrastination means. It is delaying or putting off what may or ought to be done immediately. 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.