Excerpt from The Life and Sufferings of Miss. Emma Cole: Being a Faithful Narrative of Her Life Reader, - dispensing with an introduction, I will enter at once upon the history of my Life and Sufferings; and although in many cases it may afford us but little satisfaction in taking a retrospective glance of our past life, yet with myself it is a source of much real pleasure to turn over the pages in the volume of events of my chequered life, treasured in my memory, and to thank the great Author of my being, who has carried me safely through so many trying scenes. I was born in the State of Maine. And although my parents were poor, they were honest. My father gained a livelihood for his family by cultivating a small piece of land, and occasionally fishing. Being the only child of my parents I was their idol. Beneath their parental roof I lived in my innocence, happy and contented, and sorrow was a stranger to my buoyant heart. I would that the conscious delights of those days had never departed form me; but alas! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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