Excerpt from My Little Girl, Vol. 1 of 3 After the hurricane, the papers - there are six daily organs of opinion in the island: two on straw paper, two on a peculiar fabric something stiffer than tissue, and something coarser than homespun, and two on real paper - live for a fortnight at least on the correspondence which pours in. An Occasional Correspondent writes to detail the effects in his town, an im portant centre of at least three hundred people; a Special narrates the effects in the adjoining hamlet, half a mile removed; Our Own writes from the other end of the island, fully thirty miles away: they all sign their names, and run up to town the next day to receive the con gratulations of their friends. They arrive with folded arms and brows knit. This illustrates the majesty of literature, since even these small dallyings with the muse produce such mighty throes of the mental system. And in a month all is repaired: the fields move again with the yellow-green canes, the dark coffee bushes blacken the hillsides, the roofs are all put on brand-new, the bankrupts have got fresh estates, or retain their old ones through the clemency of their creditors, and all is as it was. And in the lle des Palmistes nothing changes but the men. 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.