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Excerpt from Beyond: A Record of Real Life in the Beautiful Country Over the River and Beyond MY loved ones AT home I know how anxiously you are looking for letters from the dear ones here, and I avail myself 'of the first opportunity that has offered to write you and give some real information respecting this country over the river and Beyond. You wonder how we live and whether life here is like that with you. Yes life here is in many things very much as with you so much so that it is frequently very amusing to see the amazement of those coming here and finding us living in real houses, with sur roundings so' much like those where they came from. People often have very imperfect ideas of any new country, especially so of this. 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.