Excerpt from The Pilgrim Boy, With Lessons From His History: A Narrative of Facts Made on his mind by this good woman never forsook him, and often after she was dead he thought he heard her voice and felt the gentle touch of that hand that led him to his first school. In six months she taught him to read the New Testament. The Testament and the spelling-book were all the books in the school, and all which were then supposed to be necessary for boys who were to be farmers or mechanics. 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.