Excerpt from Unused Rainbows: Prayer Meeting Talks The war with Spain came on and disturbed the trade a good deal during 1898, but it has started up with vigor since. The fishermen make a busi ness of collecting and drying the wood, and the returns have been so large that now they cook their flounders and clams on splendid modern stoves and ranges, much like those of the people to whom they sell the wood Most of this precious fuel is slabs, blocks and edgings that were dumped into the Penobscot River from saw-mills a great many years ago. This drift floated about with the tides and currents until it became water-soaked and went to the bottom. 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.