Excerpt from Tales of Old Flanders: Count Hugo of Craenhove, Wooden Clara, and the Village Innkeeper On a spring morning in, the year 1366; ere the sunbeams had pierced through the. Dense night mist, there sat two shepherds on the wild heath. One was an old man of more than sixty years, With snow-white'hair, and shoulders bent with age: the other was still a youth; but seventeen years shone as yet on his ruddy and engaging countenance. 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.