The Cabin on the Prairie

Excerpt from The Cabin on the PrairieThere, the last hill is dug, and I'm glad! And Tom Jones leaned on his hoe, lost in thought.He was a stout lad of sixteen, with frowzy brown hair, crowned by a brimless straw hat, and his pants looked as if they had been turned inside out and outside in, upside down and down side up, and darned and patched and re-darned and patched again, until time, and labor, and cloth enough, such as it was, had been used to fabricate a number of pairs of pants. As for boots, for his lower extremities were°not wholly destitute of protection, - they might have come down to him as an heir-loom from a pauper of a preceding generation. But What mattered it to him that his clothes were threadbare, many-hued.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.