Excerpt from The Bird-Store Man: An Old-Fashioned Story Ah-ha, ye rascals And: How-dy do! Then he slipped off his greatcoat, quick as a flash, and trimmed the lights, and dashed at the scowling stove and gave it a furious shaking: whereupon the little shop, which had been gloomy and silent in the absence of the singular proprietor, glowed with light and warmth and awoke to vociferous jubilation. 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.