Excerpt from State Normal Magazine, Vol. 19: November, 1914 As he rounded the last dark bend in the road, he noticed there was no light in old Hiram Potter's window, and he hur ried up the rough little pathway to see what could have hap pened. On the cabin step he found the old man, sitting bowed, and still. Hiram, man, he called low, for the old man's stillness startled him. What's wrong? 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.