Excerpt from A Gift Book for My Mother Yet the garden 18 forever haunted with memories, with such a cloud of them that I want to set some Of them down in a haphazard, unpretentious chronicle which will have, perhaps, no importance to anyone except me (and of course my sister). Yet there may be some Others who will like to hear of just simple happinesses and affections. It is, because I write it, a book for sons. It is, also be cause I write it, a book for her and perhaps for all mothers. 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.