Excerpt from Three Freshmen: Ruth, Fran and Nathalie The fragrant thoughts and the purest resolutions of your youth. - Emerson. From the day that Ruth Chittenden lay in her cradle, the most interesting of Christmas presents to a large family of doting aunts and uncles, to say nothing of her own particular father and mother, down to the day of her eighteenth "anniversary, ' there had been at least twenty opinions as to what should be done with her at each momentous step of her girl life. But Aunt Bonnie Ray, with her proverbs and saws, had carried her points from first to last. 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.