Excerpt from The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller, Vol. 2: Consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character; With Fourteen Illustrations Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas pie He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said what a brave boy am I l' 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.