Harriet and the Piper (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Harriet and the Piper Richard carter had called the place Crownlands, not to please himself, or even his wife. But it was to his mother's newly born family pride that the idea of being the Carters Of Crownlands made its appeal. The estate, when he bought it, had belonged to a Carter, and the tradition was that two hundred years before it had been a grant of the first George to the first of the name in America. Madame Carter, as the Old lady liked to be called, immediately adopted the unknown owner into a vague cousinship, spoke Of him as a kins man Of ours, and proceeded to tell Old friends that Crownlands had always been in the family. 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.