Excerpt from Harry Burne: A Story for the Young<br><br>The house in which he resided (near to the well known port of Donaghadee) was situated within a pleasant walk of the sea side, which, during their play-hours, was the favourite haunt with the set of young students who inhabited the mansion at the time our history commences.<br><br>In passing a cottage which stood near the beach, the little group had frequently observed a poor but decent looking young man sitting at the door, engaged with nu usual eagerness in carving into a particular shape small pieces of wood, which he cut from a block close by him.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.