Excerpt from The Sequel to Old Jolliffe: Written in the Same Spirit, by the Same SpiritVery tired, but very cheerful, a woman, singing to a very ugly, very noisy, but very happy baby! A boy with a huge pair of scissors, clipping paper, seated on the ground with his fat legs crossed, screaming through the baby's noise to his father, and making anxious inquiries as to whether he does not look like a tailor, and in the corner, on a stool, is a little girl, very pale, very sad, but very pretty, in a black cotton dress, nursing a black kitten, and occasionally murmuring in a low voice, Poor pussy, and they are thus severally employed, when a tap at the door makes Mrs. Morris say, Morris dear, there's some one knocking, though why she said it I can't say, for Morris is'nt deaf, and therefore he must have heard the knock as well as she did: it must be a new way of saying, GO and answer it, for Morris says to the boy, Dickey, there's some one knocking, and down go the great 14.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.