Excerpt from One Wife Too Many: Or Rip Van Bigham, a Tale of Tappan Zee And called the people to his aid, To keep his life inviolate And that for his divine estate The sure foundations might be laid. Though Heaven assisted at his birth, And gave him as his heritage. 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.