Excerpt from The Old Apple Tree's Easter, or a Tale of Nature's Resurrection Huge fireplace, and through the long Winter evenings and long into the nights of cold starlight and colder storm had piled it high with logsfull of sap and gums that make heat and flame, and enjoyed the crackle and roar of it with the zest of a boy and the mood of a man ripened by years and thought to sense the gen uine comfort of real and homely things. And the old fireplace had told me many tales - tales of the old time folk that were before me, and of whose blood I am; memorial tales of their loves and hates, joys and griefs, life and death; of their tears and laughter, their wit and humor, their merry-making and frolics, their jokes. 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.