Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brother Mason, the Circuit Rider, or Ten Years a Methodist Preacher Though both hungry and weary, the preacher could eat but little. His heart was sickened by what Jim had told him, and the prospect of meeting with such an august assembly at the court-house on the next morning. 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.