Excerpt from A Midsummer Lark Read straight r'along. A very vicious habit in reading is to flip the flying pages till some thing succulent appears, and nabzit, then wait till something else the eye engages. Like Mrs. Todgers when she boiled the chicken, as Bailey said, who'd seen her bend above 'em, She's got a fork and dodgin' round and pickin' the tender pieces out a-catin' of 'em If true the story that precocious sinner told Mercy Pecksniff to improve his status, his worthy mis tress must have spoilt the dinner. And ruined her digestive apparatus. 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.