Excerpt from The Boatman's Daughter: A Narrative for the Learned and Unlearned Tun earnple and unobtrusive events re ferred to in the following pages occurred more than twenty years ago; and were it not that the truths illustrated by those events are of everlasting interest and obli gation, it might be needful to offer some apology to the public f or detailing them at the present date. Various causes have tended to keep the rough notes latent in the hands of the original possessor until recently, when it appeared to the writer, that the lessons they suggest would be eminently adapted to the present age; and might appeal not only to the profane and poor, but to the polite and professedly re ligious. Intellectual eminence, taste, high genius, are not here exhibited; but mat ters which, though unattractive to many. 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.