Excerpt from Hints: Or Thoughts Suggested and Facts Elicited by the Christian Brothers New Series of Readers A certain writer has beautifully asked, Do ye not know some spot, Where mortals weep no more? Some lone and pleasant dell, Some valley in the West, Where, free from toil and pain, The weary soul may rest? The loud Wind dwindled to a whisper low, And sighed for pity as it answered, 'no. We thought of these lines when reading the story of Joseph, a Swiss shepherd boy who used to tend his flocks on the s10pe of a valley, opposite an old castle. 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.