Author(s): Lucy Fitch Perkins
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 224
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2018-08-29
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 12mm
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Illustrations: 9 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white

Excerpt from A Book of Joys: The Story of a New England Summer I have been counting my Springs not all of them and it is quite ten years since I was in the country, especially this dear New England country, at this season of the year. To be sure, my Adam and I have had each Spring a few rapturous hours with the apple blossoms in our private Paradise of crab trees and hawthorns in the woods; but to live in an orchard during the bridal season of the year, that comes but seldom in the life of a city woman, and alas! Almost never to a city man. If only my Adam could per suade that severe angel with the flaming sword, whose name is Necessity, to look the other way for a mo ment while he crept past into Paradise with me, my cup of joy would be as full as the Psalmist's; and his ran over. 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.