Excerpt from Village Orphan: A Tale for Youth; To Which Is Added, the Basket-Maker; An Orginal Fragment; Ornamented With Vignettes on Wood<br><br>Two days before Mrs. Epsom's death, ayeung soldier arrived, and went for several hours together every day to sit at the old woman's bed-side. Many of the neighbours wished to return her kindness, by attending her in her sick? Ness, but Fanny would do all herself and said, Her aunt did not like any body to come near her but the' young. Soldier and herself. Poor Fanny's anxiety and want of rest, during -mrs. Epsom's illness, left her little strength to support the grief which her death 0c casioned, and she was wasted away to a skeleton. Every body thought she also' Would have died; but it pleased heaven. At that time to spare her. By degrees, as the violence of her grief abated, she.<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.