Excerpt from Rose Charlitte: An Acadien Romance The fire was of wood, - Sections Of young trees cut small and laid crosswise, and from their slender stems escaping gases choked and sputtered angrily. I am burning miniature trees, drawled the young man; by the way, they seem to be assisting in my soliloquy. Perhaps they know this little secret, and with sudden animation he put out his hand and rang the bell beside him. A colored boy appeared. Henry, said the young man, where did you get this wood? 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.