Excerpt from Tom, Dick, and Harriet It was the middle of an afternoon in early J an uary, to be exact, the third day of the new year; and overhead sunlight and clouds held alternate sway. But. The sun, already nearing the summit of the distant hills, held little warmth even when it managed to escape for a moment from the fly ing banks of cloud, and Dick, accustomed though he was to the intense cold of the western moun tains and prairies, was glad to escape for a while from that biting wind which apparently enter tained not the slightest respect for his clothing and which numbed him through and through. 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.