Excerpt from The Man Who Stole a Meeting-House: And Preaching for Selwyn<br><br>N a recent journey to the Pennsylvania oil regions, I stopped one evening with a fellow-traveller at a vil lage which had just been thrown into a turmoil of excite ment by the exploits of a horse-thief. As we sat-around the tavern hearth, after supper, we heard the particulars of the rogue's capture and escape fully discussed; then followed many another tale of theft and robbery, told amid curling puffs of tobacco-smoke until, at the close of an exciting story, one of the natives turned to my travel ling acquaintance, and, with a broad laugh, said, Kin ye beat that, stranger?<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.