Excerpt from Heidi: A Story for Girls From the beautiful village of Meyenfeld there is a path leading through green fields covered with numberless trees to the foot Of the heights which rise, grave and majestic, overlooking the valley. As this path begins to ascend, the traveler is welcomed by the fragrant perfume of the short grass and the mountain plants, for it goes up steep and direct to the Alps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.