Excerpt from Penruddocke No two boys were ever more dissimilar. My brother was pale, weakly, and beauti f'ul; I was no beauty, but ruddy and bust. All his tastes were sedentary; all mine active. He had a remarkable capa city for learning; I was incorrigibly idle, and could hardly read at nine years old. But I knew every fox-covert and every rabbit-hole 011 the estate; while Raymond could never be persuaded to mount a pony, and shrank from the report of a gun. 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.