Excerpt from The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Stone Age My name is Katherine Lawson and I am eleven years old. My brother, who calls me Kit, is a year older than I. He is named James and Often tries to be a good boy. I call him Jim, just as he calls me Kit. Of course we are well acquainted enough for that. My father's given name is Robert and my mother's name is Frances. They seem to me the best father and mother in the world, but I suppose other children think the same way of their own. I only know this, that we are an awfully happy family, even if Jim and I do have hard work in being really good. Jim says it is so easy to fall down. We live in a nice place, too. Merrivale is not a very big town, but it is pretty and the school is good and there are woods near by through which runs a creek where the boys go fishing or swim ming, and where we have picnics some times. There is one big oak and beech wood where there are a great many birds and squirrels and where the ground is almost covered in spring with different kinds of flowers. Beyond this wood is a great swamp with tamarack trees and dark places where there is almost no sound in the daytime. There are farms and little groves all about and, when one climbs the hill anywhere out of town and looks around, the scene is very beautiful. Merrivale is certainly a good place to live in. 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.