Excerpt from The Catfish The next thing he remembered was waking in his sister's bed in a bare and immensely high room flooded with yellow sunlight. Then followed ex ploration, in his nightshirt, of one high, bare, yellow room after another, furnished principally with bell wires, long passages with stairs up and down at unexpected intervals, a flagged hall, and a deli ciously cool and queer-smelling place, with slate slabs along the whitewashed walls, where the light came down green and trembling through leaves and wire netting. This place he understood to be a dairy, and the cave at one end, where his courage failed, was a wine-cellar. 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.