The Man-With-the-Wooden-Face (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Man-With-the-Wooden-Face (Classic Reprint) written by Fred Reynolds and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Man-With-the-Wooden-Face She had not always been a music-teacher. There were dim far-off memories as of half-heard strains of music quite other than those of the Solos for Juvenile Performers, and the Infants' Pianoforte Bouquet in which she sedulously instructed her pupils. These dim recollections showed, in an atmosphere of golden haze, a happy country home, a proud father, a dainty Winsome mother. The Little Teacher loved to watch those far-off joys dance like motes in the thin ray of sunshine which shot at times from the happy past athwart the dull grey present when she sat alone in her dingy lodging, her weary hands folded on her lap, her tired feet stretched out to her tiny fire; a fire which, squeezed to one side by the comfortless, coal-saving brick, had yet a part of its minimum of warmth absorbed by the wet and mud-stained boots, placed sole upwards on the fender to dry. Such frail cheap things those boots too often were for one who had to toil from house to house in all weathers and at all seasons of the year. At such times the Little Teacher would have laid aside the neat serge she wore when giving her lessons. She had to be so pitifully careful, for had she not with her own hands to tidy her one room and cook her modest supper; so the neat serge would be hanging inside-out on its peg behind the door, and the Little Teacher would have donned her play dress, as she laughingly dubbed the Old Liberty tea-gown, a relic Of far-off, happy days, and the Winsome, blithe-hearted mother. 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.