Excerpt from Laurie Todd, or the Settlers in the Woods Tun work, of which the following is a full, corrected and careful tran script, is, in the phrase of booksellers, entirely out of print. I am not aware that any copies are to be found In this country elsewhere than on the shelves of a few circulating libraries. Seldom has a story, founded on fact, excited a wider interest or more fa votable commentary than Lawrie Todd. Most of the generation, however, by whom it was read and admired, have passed away, and a new edition Is demanded by that laudable curiosity which its reputation has awakened in the minds of youthful renders. Moreover, the ancient interest of the story is kept alive by the fact that the quaint original, from which Mr. Gait drew his full-length portrait, is still in existence. Mr. Grant Thorburn, who has' lived two years beyond the allotted three score and ten, may be found in these de: generated days of fact, not fable, at the well-known establishment called N Iblo sgarden, In Broadway, dispensing from his own counter, seeds, plants and books and the good old man is as hale and hearty as in earlier hours of his pilgrimage, with a freshness of spirits and a vigor of understand ing unimpaired; for Time, who f' brings the inevitable yoke, imposes light burdens on my consciences, and with a touch, frosty but kindly, leads the, friend of humanity to the tomb. 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.