Excerpt from Little Polly Prentiss Although it was only five o'clock, and Manser Farm stood 011 a hill so that its windows caught the last gleam of sun on a pleasant afternoon the garret was growing dark. Is it five or six days it's been raining with out any stop inquired Mrs. Ramsdell, as she put down the lid of her horse-hair trunk and turned the key in the lock. It's only three days come six o'clock to-night said Aunty Peebles in her cheery treble. Don t you recall we were just going down to supper Monday when we heard the first drops on the tin roof And this is only Thursday. 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.