Excerpt from Memoirs of A. J. Gault I, Mrs. Emeline Eaton, being duly sworn, on oath depose and say that I am a sister of A. J. Gault, deceased, late of Wheatland, Clinton County, Iowa; that the sald A. J. Gault was the author of the poem Twenty Years Ago, which com menees as follows: I've wandered to the village, Tom, I've sat beneath the tree, etc.; that the poem was a letter written to my brother, Thomas Gault; that I at one time had the original manu script ih my possession and that the same has either been lost or taken by parties unknown to me. 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.