Excerpt from The Kingdom: A Descriptive and Historical Handbook to Fife, With Map and Illustrations Kingdom, with its quaint old towns and their historic memories - is the subject of this little book. All minute uninteresting details will, if possible, be avoided; things familiar to our ears from childhood's days will be found gathered together, though it may be in confused order. In those days of quick locomotion the traveller through any land is apt to forget little facts and stories connected with localities, the memory of which, could they be called to his mind at the time, would enhance the pleasure of his hurried journey or holiday visit. It has been well said In Egypt time and climate deal tenderly with things of the past; and as they were a thousand years ago, so may you see them now. Not so in a land where man, aiding the wind and weather, works ceaseless change. We grow wheat in Roman camps and turnips on glorious battlefields, and break up Druidical monuments to mend roads. It is all the more necessary, therefore, that we should be sometimes reminded of historical facts connected with localities. 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.