Excerpt from The Log of Commodore Rollingpin: His Adventures Afloat and AshoreA hissing sound escaped through his clenched teeth, as he murmured: My mother! 0 mother! It's all up with her, and her biscuit's dough. At 1 2 M. The Black Maria leaves the Four Courts for the rock pile, and unless the old woman's fine is liquidated, she's gone up for six months.Sharkey, said Dennis, addressing an amateur of his own noble profession, Sharkey, give me a stump and a match, be quick, old pard!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.