Excerpt from If a House Could Talk: Being a History of Flood or Released Recollections, the Resurrection of Old Letters and Photographs Pertaining to Litchfield and the Vaill Homestead Covering a Past Dating From 1867 to 1876 in Which I Was Vitally Interested Beyond is reached, and we are known no more. Life's but a span at most, come weal, come woe And still our joys and sorrows ebb and flow. 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.