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Excerpt from Red Letter Days in Old England and New England Willie ran to the library-table, and turning over the big Dictionary read, Red-letter: red lettered; fortunate; auspicious; as, 'a Red letter Day.' 'in the Old calendars the saints' days were marked with red letters. 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.