Excerpt from The Demagogue: A Political Novel It was eleven o'clock at night, in one of the vast wildernesses that covered North-western Ohio fifty or sixty years ago. It was in November, the most dreary of all the months in that country - a month when the cold rains fall and are never weary, when Nature is in its most sullen temper, as though sensible that it had made a failure of spring and summer, and it was therefore anxious to wreak its vengeance upon the country by continuing in an ugly mood. The air was cold - so cold that the rain which was falling had changed its mind after leaving the clouds where it was born, and struck the earth in little pellets, just light eugh to be carried on the wind, and just heavy eugh to cut and bruise like bird-shot. 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 techlogy 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.