Excerpt from Uncle Zeb His Friends<br><br>Behind the cabin was a little garden-patch, where the old man raised most of the things he needed to eat during the winter; and in one corner of the lot stood the shop, a treasure-house of things that the old man made. There were beautiful canes, and strange wind mills, and graceful canoes, and dainty boxes of birch bark, and other things from woods and fields that delight the heart of a boy who loves the out-of-doors and who likes to make things.<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.