Excerpt from The Child of the Tide<br><br>A few days after, however, when I was called' down by my friends to see a visitor, I was de lighted to find my companion of the boat, who was introduced as Mr. Eveleth. He invited me to come out to his place on the river, for a few days, and I gladly accepted the invitation.<br><br>It was a spacious house, on the bank of the river, with every accommodation for a family of six boys and girls, with a garden, green-house, and many other luxuries still rare in that re gion.<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.