Excerpt from Old Gold Some of the sketches then written have been omitted from this collection. This is a case where sins of otillssloil are likely to be less fla grant than those oi commission. It is always safe to leave out. When a hungry boy finds himself in a summer orchard where the ground 18 strewn with windfalls, kissed into ripeness by the sun and mellowed in the shade by the warmth of mother earth, he eagerly stuffs all his'pockets with the harvest of crimson and gold - of which he thinks it impossible to ...
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Excerpt from Old Gold Some of the sketches then written have been omitted from this collection. This is a case where sins of otillssloil are likely to be less fla grant than those oi commission. It is always safe to leave out. When a hungry boy finds himself in a summer orchard where the ground 18 strewn with windfalls, kissed into ripeness by the sun and mellowed in the shade by the warmth of mother earth, he eagerly stuffs all his'pockets with the harvest of crimson and gold - of which he thinks it impossible to have too much. Later, with theedge taken off his first hunger, he revises this Opinion and throws away such of the apples as then seem not 'quite up to his more exacting standard. In like vein, in looking over this ma terial, it has seemed wiser to. Prune than to swell by a too luxuriant growth. Doubtless it could have been further improved by the same'process. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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