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Excerpt from Baby GrandFor, from a time so long ago that I dislike to recall it, he had named me Lunkhead - per haps because I once told him I practised the trade Of author.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

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Excerpt from War: Or What Happens When One Loves One's EnemyMY oldest boy's name was Jonathan, and the youngest David - though they weren't called that anywhere but in the family Bible - just Jon and Dave. Except when peo ple got the Bible and the boys mixed up and called them David and Jonathan - sometimes David and Goliath!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotten...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Naughty NanHaste in a dear aunt breeds haste in a worthless nephew, I answered with a gallant which failed. My aunt merely regarded me host' ely. However, at this point I got out of her arms.Stop it! You don't think me dear.' And I don't think you worthless.' And that is just it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproducti...

Excerpt from The Fox-WomanBack to the painting for a moment again, if you please, for this, to Western notions. Was the most permanent of his two occupations. We should probably have called one work - the other play. But to Marn shida neither of them was work, nor yet exactly play. He would not have been able quite to explain it. But they were distinct parts of his life, as breathing and eating were. If you took them away, or either of them, h...

Excerpt from FeliceHE question was Whether any thing should be done for the relief of Signore Piccioli, who had been arrested the night before, and was now in detention at the white palace Where the streets crossed. And it was the shop of the great barber, Signore Martinos, the Tonsorielle of the Green Moon (that being the color most avail able to the sign-painter) which, you are to be informed, was the forum for the adjustment of the disputes...

Excerpt from Billy-Boy: A Study in ResponsibilitiesWhen we reached home he was more ill and went at once to bed. I left him with the promise that the next morning we would hunt together, and that more attention should be paid to his net. I apologized for having been too busy that day with the birds. I fancied that this was the cause of his strange humor my neglect of him and why he repelled my caresses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publis...

Excerpt from Sixty JaneAll this was supported by a hoop-skirt which gave the boys more pleasure than any other article of her attire. For they would run back and forth to tilt this, with elaborate evidence of accident. Then would be disclosed to the inactive participants a pair of Con gress gaiters, out of the relaxed, calyx-like tops of which started a pair of ghostly ankles.So it was that on these holiday occasions the boys would pelt her ba...

Excerpt from The Way of the GodsOr better, agreed the god. There is a small number of people (but, extremely small) who like to supply in full what you suggest in dashes. It tickles Them tremendously to think that you couldn't have done it so well, that you trust Them to do it better. Often They are certain that They have helped you over a place you could not help yourself over - hence the dash.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hund...

Excerpt from Heimweh: The Siren, the Loaded Gun, Liebereich, "Iupiter Tonans", "Sis" Thor's Emerald, GuileThen came the children, and John began to talk and act and think like a very proper father - even though Betsy laughed at him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stat...

Excerpt from Madam Butterfly: Opera in Three ActsThree years have passed. Pinkerton has long since been recalled to America, promising his little wife to return to her when the robins nest. The curtain rises on a sadder and wiser suzuki, praying against all convio tion for pinkerton's return, and on a faithful, ever-trusting, never - doubting butterfly. She declines to listen to suzuki's misgivings: 'tis faith you are lacking! She says, and in...