Seventy Years of an Active Life (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Seventy Years of an Active Life Fire and all other hose at that time was made of leather with copper rivets, and was very costly - rubber or canvas not being then used for this purpose and naturally was constructed in short sections. It required to be carefully looked after, otherwise it would harden quickly. 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.