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Excerpt from Sacred Allegories: The Shadow of the Cross; The Distant Hills; The Old Man's Home; The King's Messengers It is not, indeed, unmixed with a feeling Of regret that we imitate the Author's example, who, in the singleness of his heart, was unprepared for the effect on the public mind Ot°his own truthful pictures, and pained at the impression which universally prevailed, that the story was a true one and declare (as he did in a subsequent edition of the work) that the events recorded are entirely fictitious, and that nothing is true in the story of I The Old Man's Home but the graphic description of the scenes where it is placed, and the moral which it inculcates. 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.