Excerpt from Lives of the Presidents of the United States: Told in Words of One SyllableI am going to get a whip top soon, and you may see and whip it.You see the boys in those old days were fond of books, and toys and horses just as the boys of to-day are, and there is a tale of George, and a young colt, which Shows that he was a brave and strong boy, who did not fear to tell the truth though he had done wrong. He and some of his boy-friends were in a field, in which were kept some young colts, some of which had been used.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. 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.