Excerpt from The Toy Hop: A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man Startled out of his sadness, the father looked at the child. Soldiers? All right, son; I'm off for a walk now. I saw a shop the other day. He walked off. It was not a beautiful street down which he turned. Even the fine width of it suggested an inflated sense of its own importance. There were some good lines in the structure at the first corner, but the building was unfinished, and droop cd sadly, like an eagle without its wings. Beyond that corner the paving of the street ended. Looking at the mud, the Man wish ed vaguely that he had worn his boots. 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.