Excerpt from Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, Vol. 2: July to December, 1844 Such being the case, said my father, putting on his gravest face, I really think that a couple of able bodied men might stand sponsors, not merely for two babies, but for a whole regiment of infantry. It depends on the canons, said my mother, unconsciously supplying the infantry of my father's equivoque with appropriate artillery. 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.