Excerpt from The History of Thomas Frankland The whole village, on this evening, appeared particularly happy: the ml tagers were whistling as they returned from work; and the boys and girls were enjoying their innocent amusements on the green. Fanny could not but express her joy at their apparent happiness; particularly when passing the door of William Baker's cottage, she saw him, surrounded by his wife and children, engaged in returning thanks to God for the mercies and blessing of the prece'ding day. Well, cried Fanny= as they left the cottage, how happy they seem Yes, my love, replied Mrs. Freelove. 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.