Excerpt from Joe's Place: A Life Story Joe, he was all the world to me From knickerbocker days, when we Poor helpless creatures was bereft Of her that made life sweet, - him left Here motherless - a widower me. For both 'twas bad as bad could be. 'thout Joe, I'd had no use for life. 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.