Excerpt from Little Willie: A True Story The year after Charlie's death, Willie's parents took him and his sisters to see their new grandparents and aunts, who lived in a beautiful village in Massachusetts. There were not railroads all the way then as there are now, and the journey took nearly a week. They went part of the way by steam-boat, and part by cars, stage-coaches, and canal-boats, all of which were new and delightful to the children. 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.