Excerpt from Uncle Sam's Emancipation: Earthly Care, a Heavenly Discipline; And Other Sketches<br><br>His lively sense Of the comic elements in every thing, breaks out on the most unlikely occasions. One dark night, as he was driving home with His wife and Mrs. Stowe in the carriage, the whole party was upset over a bank about fifteen feet high. They had no sooner extricated themselves from the wreck, than Mrs. Beecherfand Mrs. Stowe, who were unhurt, returned thanks for their providential escape. Speak for yourselves, said the doctor, who was feeling his bruises I have got a good many hard bumps, any how.<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.