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Excerpt from Stories of Home and Home Folks, or Leaves From a Parsonage Portfolio, Vol. 1 My readers may possibly recognize here and there a character, the original of which was either a friend or an acquaintance, and perchance some who read these pages will recognize, if not themselves, at least sentiments to which they have at some time given utterance; and while these stories may not interest all, yet I trust there is enough of real home life and heart sympathy to touch an ansuiering chord in the hearts of those to whom it is dedicated, and that the effort to instruct as well as to please will not prove an entire failure. It has not been my aim to have my pictures overdrawn, nor to take any but how pictures of the common every-day life of the common every-day folk, who make up the larger portion of this busy world of ours. It is not the stories of the rich and great that I record, but as a rule only The short and simple annals of the poor, from the little per plexities of the child to the trials and victories of maturer years; from Maggie's trials or Bennie's sim ple faith, to the struggle of the man or woman over the temptation to distrust the watchful oversight of a loving Father, I have tried to be faithful to the real life of the people with whom I have come in contact; and if in my efforts to point a moral or adorn a tale I shall have been the means of lifting up some burdened one, - if I shall have succeeded in pointing some troubled sister to the Source of all consolation, ifi shall have been so fortunate as to trace some steps of the life of those who have gained victories over self or over outside hindrances, footsteps that another similarly situated. 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.