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Excerpt from Oliver Goldsmith In addressing once a West Riding audience I happened to use in illustration the different marks made by the woodman on the trees in a neighbouring wood. If you should go, I said, through Courtney Woods, you will find some trees marked with a white ring, some marked with a red, and some blazed with an axe, etc., etc. As the meeting dispersed a gentle man came up to me in great excitement to say, You ought to consider your words, sir, when you address an audience like that! Why, 501 did. How then, sir, could you come to say to those people, 'if you should go through Courtney Woods, ' when you know as well as I that they are not allowed to go through Courtney Woods. 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.