When Daddy Was a Boy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from When Daddy Was a Boy There probably never was a father who did not have to face the demand, "Daddy, tell me a story about when you were a little boy." And there probably never was a boy who did not find a story about his own father's boyhood more fascinating than any other. The stories which follow were in answer to such demands. Many of them are partly true, even the one Negro folk-lore story having this element of truth - that it was told to me in my boyhood, with many others of the Bre'r Rabbit and Bre'r Fox kind, by my own old black folks around the cabin fire. I incorporate this one as a sample, yet I use only one because they have all been published before. Some expressions, many of them colloquial, will be found in the stories which might be questioned from a rhetorical standpoint. Of these I have only to say that the stories were told, not written, and that they were told to children. They are printed for children, and have therefore been kept as much like the told story as possible. 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.