Excerpt from The Boy Pioneer, or Strange Stories of the Great Valley Through the primeval hardwood forests Of its hillsides, long ago, ran the naked, rollick ing boys Of the Stone Age, choosing the best paths as they hurried out to play, each one with his pet wolf puppy. Afterward, in the rich alluvial soil Of the bottom-lands, fur-clouted lads Of the Mound Builders laid out good trails whereon every one could drive tandem his team of captured fawns. 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.