Excerpt from The Lost Key But the garden was not all. Adjoining it was a field, in which, in peace and plenty, lived Daisy and Cowslip, - two plump, happy-looking cows, who not only supplied the squire's family with cream and butter, but also every morning furnished nice cans of skim-milk for the breakfast of many a poor family living in the cottages around. By the side of the field were the kitchen-garden and the apple-orchard, where grew in abun dance apples of all sorts and sizes, from the small rosy-faced ones with which the squire would sometimes reward good children, to the large green codlings used for making the delicious pies which they always had for supper at the yearly school-feast, about which I must now tell you. 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.