Excerpt from Nathan Burke And here, to be strictly honest, this record must close; for what else the general said and did on the one occasion when I saw him, I cannot remember or cannot disentangle what I remember from what I have been told. I must believe the occurrence was of some importance, for I was never allowed to forget it but upon these skeleton memories the older people about us and we ourselves in later years uncon sciously hang such a fabric of ideas and suggestions that a childish recollection ought not, after all, to count for much, if it were not that by these feeble links the generations are strung together; and the merest wire of a tradition may still bring us some message from the lonesome dead. 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.