Excerpt from The Schoolmaster's Trunk: Containing Papers on Home-Life in Tweenit The fifth time was this morning. While sitting in the room adjoining the kitchen, the doors being open between, I heard Martha ask her mother why they could not take a magazine. I do long for something to read said she and all we have is just one newspaper a week. Oh We couldn't get much reading-time, said Mrs. Fennel. If 'tish't one thing, 'tis another, and sometimes both. There's your father, now, coming with the raisins. These pies will take about all the forenoon. Miss Martha afterward spoke to her father about the magazine. 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.