Excerpt from Characteristic Conversations of Curly KateIS Curly Kate dead? Not at all, she is only laid up for repairs after her latest accident! She is recovering, as usual, and we hope may live for many a long day to entertain her custom ers, as she calls those for whom she wields the soap and washboard periodically.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, 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.