Tom Hundley, The Drummer Boy

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Excerpt from Tom Hundley, The Drummer Boy: Or a Secret That General Grant Kept, A Drama of 1861 (In Kentucky.) Old Kentucky home, farm-house, stable and barn. Soldiers on the march, they burn the Hundley homestead and take Mr. Hundley and Tom with them. (A room in a country house.) An old-fashioned house and furniture with plenty and comfort, but all in confusion. A large old-time fire-place, a bed of coals, over which hangs an iron pot suspended from a hook, something savory cooking for dinner, a bright-eyed girl plays with her kitten, tossing a ball of yarn, while she laughs with glee. An old settee, a corner cupboard, with old-fashioned china, some of which came down as treasured relics from ancestors, who fought and bled at Valley Forge, guns on racks supported by deers' antlers, home-made carpets, fine buffalo and Angora goat-skins covering the floor, bees hummed and sipped their nectar from the honeysuckle and wild clematis that crept over the porch, making a very attractive picture of country life. 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.