Excerpt from The Man From America: A Sentimental Comedy The old homestead stood within the shelter of cob-built walls, mended here and there with brick, and washed a yellowish pink house and walls alike were heavily thatched, and covered with carefully trained peach and plum trees. 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.