Excerpt from Missouri Yesterdays: Stories of the Romantic Days of Missouri The small son of Missouri sat on the rail fence in a tangle of elder blossoms and fall ing wild roses. He was bare-footed, bare headed, and sunburned to an Indian brown ness. He jerked a thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the little cemetery bathed now in the sunset's light. 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.