Excerpt from The Cedar Star ON three sides of the schoolroom table at Blow Weston Rectory the rector's three little daughters sat. On the fourth sat Miss Walker their governess. A muddy complexion had Miss Walker, and her mud-colored hair was dressed in a hundred little curls above her little brow and arranged in sleek, moist looking coils above her mud-colored neck. She had, besides, a remarkably short nose, and her very wide mouth was stretched to its utmost limit this afternoon in yawn upon yawn. 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.