Excerpt from Rab and His Friends And I likewise feel sure that nobody will be sorry to see that vivid story of Rab in his youthful days brought from the place it has hitherto occupied among strangers to be thus united with this record of his faithful love and devotion to his friends in his Old age and death. The earlier narrative forms a natural intro duction to the later, and adds not a little interest to it - especially as explaining the origin of the sympathetic relationship between Ailie and Rab, which continued so close and tender to the last, as was so touchingly shown during her last illness and at her death. 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.