Excerpt from The House of Martha MY grandmother sat in her own particular easy chair by the open window of her back parlor. This was a pleasant place in which to sit in the after noon, for the sun was then on the other Side of the house, and She could look not only over the smooth grass of the side yard and the flower beds, which were under her especial care, but across the corner of the front lawn into the village street. Here, between two handsome maple-trees which stood upon the sidewalk, she could see something of What was going on in the outer World Without pre senting the appearance of one Who is fond of watching her neighbors. It was not much that She saw, for the street was a quiet one but a very little of that sort of thing satisfied her. 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.