Excerpt from Old Johnny AppleseedIn those days a strange old man, barefooted and barelegged, dressed in nothing but a coffee sack With an old tin saucepan for a hat, wandered the leafy trails over hill and valley in Ohio. Queer-looking enough was Johnny With his bushy black hair-and beard.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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