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Excerpt from Friends at Their Own Fireside, or Pictures of the Private Life of the People Called Quakers, Vol. 1 of 2 The intention of the writer of the following sim ple story being that of giving a perfectly true and graphic description of the domestic habits of the Society of Friends, the reader is requested in the outset to go back in the history of this Society at least fifty years; because it is scarcely possible, in their present altered habits and modes of life, to find, in clear development, those characteristic features which at one time rendered them so dis tinct and peculiar a people. 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.