Excerpt from Jessie's Acquisition: Or a Summer at the Old Homestead<br><br>A round rosy face, subject to many changes like the moods of its owner, eyes that shaded from blue to gray, auburn hair whose possessor stoutly averred was not red, and a plump form. This was Jessie Attwood.<br><br>Her oldest brother Alfred with whom she frequently quarreled one minute and made up the next, said, Jet is all right, except a little too much pepper in her composition.<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.