Excerpt from A Child's Garden of Verses TO have to go to bed when the hills beyond Ettrick were purple against the silver light of a summer evening had but one compensating advantage. There were no shadowy passages to tread on the darksome way, and there was no fear, as in winter darkness, of. Seeing a spectre who, as spectres will, brought his own light with him. 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.