Excerpt from George Helm The funny frock coat and the stove pipe hat? - Who's the big hulking chap that looks as if he'd just landed from nowhere - I saw the queerest looking mud-dauber of a lawyer or doctor - or maybe preacher - sitting on the steps of Mrs. Beaver's boarding-house. I saw him, too. He had nice eyes - gray and deep set - and they twinkled as if he were saying, 'yes, I know I'm a joke of a greenhorn, but I'm human, and I like you, and I'd like you to like me.' i. 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.