Excerpt from The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution It was while spending part of a summer with a fiend in the neighbour hood of the once beautiful, but now utterly decayed town of Dorchester, that I availed myself of the opportunity to revisit the ancient ruins of the place. When a boyl had frequently rambled over the ground, and lie tened to its domestic chronicles, from the lips of one - now no more who had been perfectly conversant with its local history, as with a large body of revolutionary and traditional history besides. 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.