Excerpt from The Life of Abraham The great plain of Chaldea had rich pas tures, Where the grass grew very luxuriantly. Thousands of cattle were scattered over these green pastures. The gentle shepherd led his flocks and herds into these fertile fields, and they drank from the running streams, and lay down upon the soft carpet formed by the green grass. 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.