Excerpt from The Californian Crusoe: Or, the Lost Treasure Found; A Tale of Mormonism I have little recollection of my mother, who died before I had completed my fourth year. A brother and a sister, both younger than myself, partook with me of the affectionate care of our surviving parent, and in due time we were sent to a parochial school, in which we acquired the rudiments of a useful education. On Sundays we regularly attended divine service in the venerable parish church, in which our forefathers had worshipped during many generations. Upon three or four old tombstones, half sunk in the earth and overgrown with moss, might still be deciphered the name of Richards. 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.