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Excerpt from The Red Anvil: A Romance of Fifty Years Ago The next time you chance to pass that way make it a point to know Smithboro better. Should it be your good fortune to find the place under a sum mer's sun, say in July or August, gladness will possess your soul that you broke your journey there. A spirit of perfect restfulness pervades its elm-embowered streets. All about where the shad ows of the spreading branches of those majestic trees lie upon the gravelled roads, the flagged path ways, the shingles and the clapboards, are calm and contentment. Calm and contentment are of the air of Smithboro, as if the old village, like a man in the fullness of his years with life's finished work behind him, were keeping vigil there that he might complete a brave career with as brave an end. It is a noble survival awaiting the final stroke. 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.