Excerpt from The Master Builder: Or, Life at a Trade There is a romance in every true character, and in all the great labors of life, and this sim ple story is my second effort to describe it. My first book was Summerfield, or Life on a Farm. My second reveals a character of which many readers of Summerfield have asked to hear more. And I hope it may inspire them with more respect for every honorable calling, and encourage them to rise to a still more noble and enlightened life; while I may venture, perhaps, to describe the romance of another of those sim ple, yet sublime pursuits, which are the hope of our Republic, and the glory of her people.tantrutz. 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.