Excerpt from For the Other Boy's Sake, and Other Stories Miss Rivers laid her hands on the wheels of her invalid's chair and moved herself a little nearer to the doctor, who was standing up. Young man, she said harshly, you know that I am lame, and why do you talk about my getting: out of doors and exerting myself. That is another reason for staying at home. 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.