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Excerpt from Ardis Claverden N a pleasant morning, at the very end of summer, a man was sitting upon a fence by a roadside. This fence was in that country of low mountains and rolling land which lies along the eastern base of the Virginia Blue Ridge. The air was warm, but not too warm; and the man liked warm air. The sky was clear and blue without a cloud; and there was something in the heart of this man which made him love a sky like this. He wore a wide straw hat ragged at the edges; his shirt was coarse and indicated the color of the soil; and his trousers of brown cotton cloth were tucked into the tops of a pair of heavy, well-worn boors. He was a poor man, and had very little in this world except a wife and four daughters. But the air was warm and the sky was blue, and he was happy. And, to add to his happiness, there came to him the smell of grapes. The three things that he loved in this world, next best to his wife and daughters, were warm air, blue sky and the smell of grapes. 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.