Excerpt from Verse and Story This volume is compiled at the solicitation of friends and for a dear little son, who will highly appreciate in future years the words of his devoted mother. He will also value, as will all her friends, the glimpse of a noble life and the tribute to a blessed memory, which the Bishop of West Virginia has added to its pages. The book makes no special pretentions and hence its title Verse and Story. It was written as a recrea tion and a relief for an active mind, and it is but just to add that such of her work as has not been pre viously published is taken directly from the original draft of the author without alteration or correction. Mrs. Brittingham took particular delight in literature and met with some success in writing for various periodicals, yet she was too much occupied with the Father's business and the pressing duties of home life to do full justice to her literary efforts. She loved song well, but souls better, and her feet were too often turned toward the home of the humble to visit fre quently that of the muses. The Old, Old Story. 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.